New Vehicle Tracking in Transit

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Thanks for this...

Tried today and it says my car has been loaded on the vessel

On board the TAMESIS (EF931-TAM) it is scheduled to arrive in Brisbane on the 28/9/09.

So my car has been built. Seems so hard to believe it all happened since ordering in May.

Didn't realise it would go so many places before getting here. Here's the itinerary of the vessel.

BREMERHAVEN GERMANY 13/08/2009 15/08/2009
SOUTHAMPTON UNITED KINGDOM 17/08/2009 17/08/2009
LE HAVRE FRANCE 18/08/2009 18/08/2009
ZEEBRUGGE BELGIUM 19/08/2009 19/08/2009
BALTIMORE, MD U.S.A. 28/08/2009 29/08/2009
SAVANNAH, GA U.S.A. 31/08/2009 31/08/2009
MANZANILLO PANAMA 04/09/2009 04/09/2009
PAPEETE FRENCH POLYNESIA 16/09/2009 16/09/2009
AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND 22/09/2009 22/09/2009
NOUMEA NEW CALEDONIA 25/09/2009 25/09/2009



EDIT: http://aprs.fi/?call=257565000&mt=m&z=9&timerange=43200 ----That tracking thing is so bloody awesome it's not FUNNY!!!! The Tamesis' callsign is LAOL5 (MMSI NUMBER: 257565000) and you can see where it is right now!! Amazing!

http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shi...tml?call=LAOL5

Here is a new and better site for ship tracking: http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/def...208:40:37%20AM


EDIT: 18/9/2009 - I think I've taken tracking your car to a new level of nerdiness by looking for the Tamesis vessel carrying my car on publicly available webcams! I succeeded in watching it leave Southampton this morning at 8:15am or so local time and then enter Le Havre harbour at 2:49 pm local time. Here are some pictures (and I'm hoping to continue watching the ship along its journey)...

Here in Southampton:


I've put a red arrow at where the front is. It was more obvious in motion but also dark. The angle of view of the webcam is shown in the Google graphic and the position of the Tamesis also indicated.

And more impressively on a user controllable webcam at Le Havre (very cool). First shot we see the tug ship going out to greet the Tamesis (the red ship)...



then as it crosses the main part of the harbour/bay...


and as it goes towards the dock into the distance... I got the Le Havre welcome centre into the shot


There are more intermediate shots, but these show the idea well. Now I know the ship definitely exists.....

EDIT 19/8/2009: The webcam at Zeebrugge updates every 5 mins and unfortunately the Tamesis passed by without being caught by the camera. Here's the URL for anyone in future who might have their boat going through this port: http://www.meteo.be/meteo/view/en/15...Zeebruges.html


Next stop is Baltimore so I'll be trying to get some pics from there when it arrives on the 28/9/09.



EDIT: 6/9/2009: Well the Tamesis was somewhat delayed going through the Panama Canal. I had setup some automatic captures for the webcams there and last night the Tamesis went through the first of the locks (called Gatun) and I was awake to make sure everything went well. I went to bed at 11:45 PM. The camera I had set up for the Miraflores locks had been working perfectly for 48 hours already so had a mass of footage. It would take the Tamesis 8 hours or so to get to the other locks.

As it turned out I slept in for Father's day and my two boys came and greeted me in bed. It was 9:00 AM and we slowly went downstairs and to my horror, and proving Murphy's Law the auto setup had quit working 8 hours before, only minutes after I went to bed. So I don't have the transit through the Miraflores locks, and that would have been the more impressive of the videos!

Anyway, it's on its way now to Papeete.

Here is the video of the Tamesis transiting the Gatun Locks in case anyone is interested...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQEA3DaouyY

Here are some static images:





You can see the end of the writing "TAMESIS" there.

And finally the low resolution camera:



Enjoy... especially those who also have their car on this ship (I know there's at least one other person - but his is an Audi