The Internet as a source of marine Safety Information

[franksingleton]

Well it might Frank. A lot of websites make their money from hosting adverts on their pages. If people get the info from other sites MF get no advertising revenue. Similarly, if you link directly to the info page without visiting the home page they may also lose advertising revenue. I suspect that has more to do with it.

I realise that Tony. However, they should recognize the needs of sailors at sea. Safety concerns should override commercial ones.

 

[prv]

they should recognize the needs of sailors at sea. Safety concerns should override commercial ones.

And I want a pony.

Pete

 

[franksingleton]

Météo France has changed its marine weather pages again. All forecasts can now be book marked. However, for those without broadband connectivity, these cannot be obtained using the Sailmail text retrieval service - http://weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather/Marine-Weather-Forecast-Services-By-Email#webtexts .

Anyone in that position will have to use Navimail see the US NWS site http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/navimail.txt

On the UK Met Office site, there are printable versions of all marine forecasts but for these, again, the URLs cannot be used for Sailmail. However, the Met office does put forecast texts on “Mobile Weather” pages. These URLs can be used with Sailmail and are as good as the printable versions.

On http://weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather/Weather-Forecasts-On-The-Internet the pages for Europe and the Mediterranean have been updated to show these Mobile Marine pages. These pages are not likely to be found easily by foreign sailors nor by some UK sailors. This seems to be a retrograde step in safety terms.