Yes. Nothing there to see but markers that are shown on AIS as V-AIS markers.
The following post is from Toph, on an Australian site. The main channel is used by large tonnage shipping and naval vessels. The parallel channel only
exists in the cloud. Or so it would seem
gary
Well this is a new one for me..
Sailing in an unfamiliar area to me, and I am heading for a marked channel were I am expecting to see 3 pair of channel markers as seen on Navionics. Everything is making sense (I wasn't totally unfamiliar with the area but it had been probably 5 years since I was last in it) and my AIS was going nuts flashing red indicating that expected channel markers were within my preset 'danger zone'. Nothing new, a lot of the markers around Fremantle and into Cockburn Sound have AIS returns associated with them.
But for the life of me though I couldn't see these markers, and we should've just about run into them. I asked 2 others onboard if they could have a good look too, but nup nothing around. Pulled out the official chart and the channel I was suppose to be in had the marks labeled V-AIS or very basically Virtual AIS, except the AIS signal is from an off location source. There simply is noting physically there.
The future is going to be an awesome place and one day people are going to look back at our era and think we are just as basic as our era views the likes of Christopher Columbus.
The following post is from Toph, on an Australian site. The main channel is used by large tonnage shipping and naval vessels. The parallel channel only
exists in the cloud. Or so it would seem
gary
Well this is a new one for me..
Sailing in an unfamiliar area to me, and I am heading for a marked channel were I am expecting to see 3 pair of channel markers as seen on Navionics. Everything is making sense (I wasn't totally unfamiliar with the area but it had been probably 5 years since I was last in it) and my AIS was going nuts flashing red indicating that expected channel markers were within my preset 'danger zone'. Nothing new, a lot of the markers around Fremantle and into Cockburn Sound have AIS returns associated with them.
But for the life of me though I couldn't see these markers, and we should've just about run into them. I asked 2 others onboard if they could have a good look too, but nup nothing around. Pulled out the official chart and the channel I was suppose to be in had the marks labeled V-AIS or very basically Virtual AIS, except the AIS signal is from an off location source. There simply is noting physically there.
The future is going to be an awesome place and one day people are going to look back at our era and think we are just as basic as our era views the likes of Christopher Columbus.