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CAPTAIN ROB

ServiceLocal vesselUnited States of America

Position 50s agoSource: AISStream.ioFree for any use

Identity

Name
CAPTAIN ROB
MMSI
368243940
IMO number
Not reported
Call sign
Not reported
Station type
Ship station

Classification & hull

AIS type code
57
Type
Local vessel
Category
Service
Length overall
Not reported
Beam
Not reported
Draught
Not reported

Length is the sum of the two AIS reference-point dimensions fore and aft; beam is the sum of the port and starboard pair. Both come from the vessel's own static report.

Voyage & motion

Destination
Not reported
ETA
Not reported
Speed over ground
7.5 kn
Course over ground
354°
True heading
356°

Destination, ETA and navigational status are typed in on the bridge, not measured. Speed, course and heading come from the vessel's instruments.

Last known position

Latitude
32° 49.508' N
Longitude
79° 55.760' W
Decimal
32.82513, -79.92933
Received
50s ago
Reported by ship
Not reported
Source feed
AISStream.io

This is the latest position our store holds, not a live fix. The vessel has been free to move for the whole of the age shown above.

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Only one position is held for this vessel, so no track can be drawn.

Nearby

Other vessels near this one

Everything else our snapshot holds within 25 nm of CAPTAIN ROB's last known position, straight-line distance and true bearing — not a route either vessel is following.

VesselTypeDistanceBearing from CAPTAIN ROB
PICKLED ALBATROSSUnknown0.5 nm329° NNW
DILLARDUnknown0.6 nm303° WNW
DECATEUR GILLIKINTowing vessel0.6 nm299° WNW
MARIE CLARETug0.7 nm296° WNW
NEPTUNETowing vessel0.8 nm309° NW
LADY VICTORIAPleasure craft1.2 nm185° S
WYATT MORANTug1.3 nm356° N
JAMES A MORANUnknown1.5 nm346° NNW
ELEANOR F MORANTug1.5 nm348° NNW
CAPE DUCATOCargo ship, no additional information1.6 nm343° NNW
CAPE DOUGLASCargo ship1.6 nm340° NNW
NOAA NANCY FOSTERNon-combatant ship1.7 nm337° NNW
MONICA LYNNTug1.7 nm157° SSE
FIREBOAT201Law enforcement vessel1.8 nm331° NNW
CG29452Unknown1.8 nm155° SSE

Ranked by great-circle distance from CAPTAIN ROB's last known fix, both taken from the same snapshot moment. Neither vessel has necessarily stayed put since — see the age shown above for how stale each position may be. Also available as JSON: /api/nearby.

What this data means

Reading this record

Everything above comes from two different AIS transmissions. Position, speed, course and heading arrive in message 1, 2 or 3, broadcast every few seconds while under way — that is why the position age above can be very small. Name, MMSI, IMO number, call sign, type and dimensions arrive in a separate static report — message 5 for a Class A transponder, message 24 for Class B — sent only around once every six minutes. A vessel can therefore show a fresh position with an old or missing static report, or the reverse.

Nothing here is estimated, interpolated, or carried over from a previous ship at the same MMSI. Where the vessel did not transmit a field, or transmitted a value the standard defines as "not available", we print “Not reported” rather than guess.

Data for this page comes from AISStream.io under Free for any use. Field meanings are explained in the reference guides. Nothing on this page is derived, estimated or filled in — where a field is empty, we print “Not reported”.