Yearly Archives: 2012

One Month Of Traffic Visualized

The Image above is all traffic in Halifax Harbour, for the month of November 2011. (1:150000 scale)

the images were produced from the position data of the various vessels transiting the harbour. the individual points were joined to form lines, then overlaid on Halifax in Arcgis.
(Below 1:7500 scale HalTerm)

 

HMCS Kingston Route Survey

HMCS Kingston, Running in the Bedford Basin today. She appears to be running with the Route Survey package, with a towed sonar.

The Route Survey Package allows the ship to produce state of the art, high quality imagery of the ocean bottom with the use of multi-beam side scan sonar housed in a streamlined active body known as a towfish. This information is used for route mapping, detection and classification of mine-like objects and the optimization of ocean route planning.

Silva Set a Drift = Piracy

This past Sunday, some morons boarded the Tall Ship Silva, Raised a Sail, and released all but one of her lines. That Last line, eventually broke, and she was spotted drifing by pier 21 when a tug was dispatched.  Looks Like Halifax has a Case of piracy –  from the Criminal Code of Canada Piracy

Piracy by law of nations
  • 74. (1) Every one commits piracy who does any act that, by the law of nations, is piracy.

    • Punishment
      (2) Every one who commits piracy while in or out of Canada is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.
    • R.S., c. C-34, s. 75;
    • 1974-75-76, c. 105, s. 3.

    Piratical acts
    75. Every one who, while in or out of Canada,
    • (a) steals a Canadian ship,
    • (b) steals or without lawful authority throws overboard, damages or destroys anything that is part of the cargo, supplies or fittings in a Canadian ship,
    • (c) does or attempts to do a mutinous act on a Canadian ship, or
    • (d) counsels a person to do anything mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c),
    is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.
    • R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 75;
    • R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 7.

    Bellow: Silva, When not adrift

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