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You can literally just see where any ship in the world is (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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I'm sure this is not a new thing, but I just found out about it, and I think it's pretty neat!

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[–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

As I no longer work in that field, I'm happy to answer any questions you (or anyone else, for that matter) may have on the subject. To me it's remnant information I no longer need, but to others it might come in handy. Or at least interesting.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I know next to nothing about ships and laws that pertain to them, but on the topic of pirates, do ships have the right/authority to defend themselves? In another comment of yours, you mentioned war canoes, if a ship sees or detects a craft like this and it doesn’t respond to communications, what’s to prevent crew on board from blasting them out of the water?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    My understanding is basically that it's up to what local laws allow, combined with ship owners policies.

    We saw what was most likely pirates a few times, but we had armed escorts so they were never openly hostile. You can't just shoot at any that vaguely resembles pirates, as there are fishing boats in the area as well, and they don't look that different.

    Story time!

    I remember chilling on the back deck, doing my hour of lookout in case someone were trying to board us. One of our chase boats (armed escorts) contacted me via the portable VHF I was carrying to let me know there was a small boat looking like it was trying to approach. I found this odd, as the only boats I saw in the vicinity were boats that were supposed to be there. I looked over the railing, and knew what the chase boat was talking about: Yup, there was a boat there, alright. But it was one of ours, they were just normally much further away. Turned out they were almost out of water after being in an open boat for an entire day that was abnormally hot even by Nigerian standards. I gave them a tray full of ice cold coke cans and a few bags of doritos from the workshop next to me, and they grinningly went back to their job of towing away fishing nets that had drifted into our survey area.

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