Ships waiting for the locks to open

Katmai Bay Ice breaker is out in front. These are all anchored waiting to get through.

Here’s the link if interested, you can zoom wherever and click on each vessel to see if they are underway or stopped, what their track was… Yes, I’m bored.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-85.0/centery:47.1/zoom:7

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This is cool. Entirely curious why the colors of land/water are inverted.

Probably just your subconscious mind automatically goes to.
White is safe. Gray/blue is no go zone.

Or, conversely, water is blue.

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Not when it’s covered with ice.

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Perhaps readability- vessel names show better on white than blue. :man_shrugging:

I just went on a 30 minute bunny trail looking at the vast amount of ship travel going on around the world. I am shocked how many vessels are transporting goods every day.
Thanks for posting @Gitche!

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Yeah, when you zoom out, it’s insane.

Check out the Mississippi and Ohio rivers

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Check out Russia! Do they not have any inland waterways?

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Must not, either that or no AIS for inland traffic.

Looks like all the ships are moving through the locks now in the Soo.

Makes me want to take a road trip. Never explored the St. Mary’s river area. Looks like Bigfoot area!

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I was just looking at the area north of Lake Saint Clair where the freighters go by and wondering what that was like.

Hormuz as of yesterday.
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2038987157683966065