The ShipWatcher Blog

P&O has a new ship: Azura.

I’ve added her webcam to ShipWatcher. Click this link to add her to your favorites.

I’ve added new webcams for two of Royal Caribbean’s ships: Oasis of the Seas and Voyager of the Seas.

If you’d like to add these ships, just click on “Preferences”, scroll to the bottom of the page, and tick the RCI ships that you want to look at, or click this link to add them to [...]

I’ve added Ocean Village and Ocean Village 2 to ShipWatcher.

They’ll soon be transferred to P&O’s Australian fleet, but by adding them now, you’ll be able to watch them on their final voyages for their current company.

You can follow them here:
Ocean Village on ShipWatcher
Ocean Village 2 on ShipWatcher

I’ve added Carnival’s latest ship, Carnival Dream to ShipWatcher.

At over 1000 feet in length, Dream is the largest ship in Carnival’s fleet.

She was built by Fincatieri in Italy, and leaves on her maiden voyage today, from Civitavecchia near Rome.

Even though you might not be able to be there on her maiden voyage, you can still [...]

I’ve moved the ShipWatcher blog from Blogger to the WordPress platform, and hope you like the changes.

Please update your browser favourites, and RSS readers.

I wanted to say a special thank-you to all the photographers who made their work available under the Creative Commons license and let me use their images as banners on the site.

I’m [...]

Some of the ShipWatcher features weren’t working when you viewed the site using the latest version of Internet Explorer (IE8), so I’ve fixed those problems.

Basically if you held your mouse over a webcam image, you were supposed to then see information about the ship. This didn’t work in IE8. While I was testing this, I [...]

I’ve added Carnival Cruise Line’s new ship, Carnival Splendor to ShipWatcher.

To see her webcam, just click on “Preferences” scroll to the bottom and look in the “Carnival Cruise Lines” section.

She has two webcams, although it appears that the “aft” cam is pointing at the swimming pool.

I apologise for the unavailability of ShipWatcher.com over the last few days.

Our server failed, so we bought a new server, which also failed.

Not being one to give up easily, I’ve been on this issue since Friday lunchtime, and am relieved to say that as of about 10pm last night, everything is now working fine.

What was [...]

I’ve improved the accuracy of the location reports for the following ships:

Queen Mary 2
Queen Victoria
Fram
Arcadia
Oriana

Over the last few days I’ve improved the response time of most ShipWatcher functions. It should be loading a lot faster now. If you notice delays, please let me know.

One other thing I’ve improved is estimating where a ship is. Some ships don’t broadcast their position. They only tell us where [...]