For anyone who has never heard it before, the shipping forecast on the BBC is an absolute delight. It sounds like postmodern poetry, read by the smoothest voiced newsreaders available in the land.

Shipping has no part in my life whatsoever, but this channel is fascinating. Thanks for the content.

Thank you for this useful information strange boat man. - A Very Landlocked Kansan

Oh back in the day at PH? Typhoon? No problem, we'll travel still. Hours later, capsized.

Radio 4 doing the shipping forecast is so relaxing

they should just put a weather rock on the deck

This was great to see you break down the areas around the UK. I only know my East Coast and Great Lakes in Canada regions. We also put our WX on our Continuous Marine Broadcast channel for any areas with Radio coverage.

Video Idea: How the command jobs are onboard a modern large ship. Captain, First Officer, Second Officer, and so on. What are their jobs, and who controls what?

Thank you for creating this, a very informative and entertaining video as always. I really enjoy your work, your content has led me to have an ever more curious interest in anything maritime related (have recently been learning about sacrificial anodes). I'm not sure if you have time to read all of these comments, but if I think it'd be really interesting if one day you made a video about the key differences between 'coastal' and 'deep sea' vessels and procedures (please somebody correct me if I am using incorrect terminology here!). All the best, Charles

I listen to the shipping forecast if I'm struggling to get to sleep, now I'll actually understand it!

Always good to see a video from you - so informative in a _casual_ way. :)

This is awesome. I was just searching for a video to give an overview on navtex and this is by far the best I've seen.

Awesome! Maybe one of my favourite ones yet. I really appreciate the clear and concise explanations :)

I thoroughly enjoyed watching your well-conceived video and learned a lot of Navtex in such a short span of time. Your very clear narration and vivid animations are par excellent, second to none, I dare say. Thank you so much.

Thank you as usual.. very informative even beyond the main subject... appreciate the time and efforts invested

Thank you for this video! I knew seamariners get weather of some kind of radio but didn't know what kind and the extend of the system. Very cool to see the different sea areas and stations.

Obviously From the crow’s best of course, get some young scallywag up there to warn us if ‘tis a storm coming...

Why are parts of all of your videos censored in certain parts? In in the US if that helps find out why.

Looking at the thumbnail, yeah, I don't want to cling to the hull of a giant ship either.

This was very interesting! Thanks for sharing this.

Love these videos! A suggestion for future videos: SSAS and LRIT. Can't wait! :)

Thanks. Always fascinating content

The video is pretty cool , I really like these types of videos and I like how you make it less than 10 minutes And I manage to drop my phone beacuase of how I was focused on the vid

Can we all just take a moment and appreciate that "pirate warnings" is part of the mandatory features that can't be disabled 😂

It is indeed a very interesting channel. Thanks again for the video.

would you ever cover the story of how the Queen Mary nearly capsized in rough seas? I think its really fascinating. Your content is amazing though fr

Welcome back

Smartly edited. Nice work.

I love this channel.

Excellent

Very interesting. What was the first generation of this technology?

Very much helpful.... Thank you for explaining it

Always excellent!

I know this channel is not for learning naval things but i take it as a little advise anyway

A and L seemed to be the same thing.

hope to soon see the video explaining the port of registry of a ship and why do ship companies decided places like the Bermuda, the Bahamas and mostly Caribbean countries rather than westerns countries.

Starlink is going to be amazing for sailors

I love your videos

This is so different to the TAFs I am used to writing. It is insane how different the forecast formats ar3e for different customers.

There is also a land version of the Beaufort scale. Kite fliers, among others, can use it as a reference.

thank you more videos plz

Grate vídeos ! Thanks

Finally!

Love the content. Thought I subscribed a few months ago, but it seems youtube dropped my subscription....

The way you said mandatory threw me off for a hot sec

Im going to school to be a captain man im learning a lot thanks

😄 Did you also succumb to the temptation to have the booster that is an arrow in your thumbnail? Good on you, your content is always a treat

Hello, I am from the Upper Great Lakes and was wondering if you could do some videos on Lake Freighters and lake navigation, really love your content!

Yes ok I will stop clingy myself to the haul of ships. Thank you thumbnail.

1:20 isnt A=L?

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The weather forecasts for maritime are very similar to those used by aircraft pilots. In fact, the whole system of nautical charts and navigation are the similair too.

At 4:28, there is a computer on screen but the computer screen is censored. Might I ask what that is for?

Very similar to METAR in modern airliners. Interesting

*NOT RELATED* So uh, could you please do videos on Great Lakes Bulkhead carriers? They're (somewhat) easy to draw from the front and sides.

In larger and more remote ocean areas (A3 and A4), INMARSAT-C (International Maritime Satellite System - C) and NBDP (Narrowband Direct Printing) become the standard way of receiving the same information as NAVTEX. Keeping in mind that A3 and A4 cover most of the world's ocean area, they are very widely used and extremely important. While INMARSAT-C and NBDP are used for the same information as NAVTEX, they also have other services they provide. Therefore, rather than dividing it into numbers, it is divided into areas around the globe. Most these days are done automatically, with manual inputs for future reference. The NAVTEX information, within INMARSAT-C and NBDP, is called MSI, or Maritime Safety Information.

Aren't A and L the same?

makes an updated version of the new discovery about Estonia. about the new hole!

Great video! Wondering if some bigger ships have satellite internet ?

What kinds of careers can I find in maritime business? I’m very fascinated by nautical info and want to go somewhere with it.

I honestly thought they would have their own weather station onboard

Or tune to BBC Radio 4 every night at 00:48. A soothing bedtime listen. 😍

They listen to the radio 4 shipping forecast, obviously

That sounds complicated. And explains why the ship's have a dedicated radio guy.

Why combine metres with nautical miles for visibility, e.g. 1000m - 2 nautical miles?

On your NavTex reciever I’m the video I saw something bout Loran C? Ain’t that a navigational aid? I only heard of that in aviation context, but I know maritime and aviation are quite related

Hmmm? you give the impression this is the only method, not so, refer to the Admiralty list of radio signals (ALRS) volume 3 (2 parts) to get full weather coverage available to any vessel Navtex, vhf, mf, hf etc etc

Pactor 4 is out and works to get internet GRIB files and email at 12kbps using only a HAM radio...ship do use this

Just think what starlink can do.. This navtex thing will be a thing of the last century

What's the difference between A and L ?

Why is the laptop blurred

4:26 Looks a bit foggy

We check Windy and Windfinder. Seriously.

What kinda radios do ships have? Ham?

interesting

Do I have to be a guy that’s on a boat to get this weather data? A lot of weather data services are proprietary and locked into an expensive subscription. I have the utility or maybe responsibilty to make decisions based on weather forecasts. I’d like to be more informed than I currently am. Thoughts?

Is WEFAX still a thing? That along with NOAA audio reports (both over HF) were how I always got my weather.

How do you do time at sea?

at least it doesn't seem to be all coded like it is for aviation. Aviation uses METARs, ATIS, TAFs, and other wx products. Aviation wx products are almost always coded

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Could you do worlds worse ship disaster

Navtex is fine but there is an older and in my opinion better way of getting weather information and that is the weather fax . It works like an ordinary fax machine but the signals are transmitted by designated radio stations. On this machine you will get a graphic display printed (burned) on a piece of paper where you can see various weather and sea information for the area of interest. Sometimes these charts could be difficult to read due to bad radio signals but most of the time they were ok. In the later years we are getting weather information via satellite and could access this information at any time. This is important when a hurricane/ typhoon is in the vicinity. These storms can change speed and direction at any time so it is important to follow the development all the time. In 1957 a German school ship was lost in the hurricane Carrie. The sail ship did everything correct according to the book but the hurricane followed a strange path and altered speed and direction several times. With the equipment and updated weather information we can receive today this accident would probably been avoided.🤠

at 1:19 whats the difference between A and L?

Why are some parts of your videos blurred? I've seen it in nearly all of your videos

Good stuff! But... No WeatherFax?

Navtex kinda reminds me to ACARS System, which airplanes use

This is why Poseidon Probably wouldn't have happened 🤣🤣 #Poseidon

A and L.... are the same?

Why part of videos is often blurred?

D. Search & Rescue Information, and "Pirate Warning"?

1:19 A and L are the same. You said Navigational Warnings can't be turned off then said that Navigational Warnings is optional but shouldn't be. That's two opposite things so I'm not understanding.

=YUP,THAT THING IS NEEDED =...................LIKE A RADIO CB STATION TO INTERACT WITH TRUCK DRIVERS

Dont ships have a dedicated weather radar? I know that planes have a radar that lets them see the clouds density, height, etc.. so don't ships have something like that??

Item _"C."_ would have been useful on the Titanic....

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Wait a second…. so I can’t get my newspaper delivered to the afterdeck?

With spacex’s starlink sattelites orbiting the globe now, is there a chance this could be used to provide information and internet to people on the oceans?

why dont they just google it using satelite internet?

Maybe a good topic would be the interpretation of synoptic charts.

Can you do a video on the SpaceX landing ship?