25/01/2025
AIS is one of the great leaps forward in marine electronics and safety at sea. Coming across the channel, it is a joy to be able to see the commercial traffic ahead of you and pick your way through the streams of ships entering and leaving separation schemes. It is very tempting though to concentrate on the AIS targets on the screen and forget there will be other vessels out there not transmitting AIS. There will always be a fishing boat or two doing something odd and the only way you will see those is visually or by radar. (Courtesy of Raymarine)
