Do you know someone working on a cruise ship? Want to see where they are? It’s possible to look up the location of any ship in the world through the Sailwx website. All you have to know is the name of the ship, and it’ll give you a map of exactly where it is. It’s really pretty cool!
You can also look up cruise ship locations through Google Earth, if you have that installed on your computer.
Do you want to see where your friend is? I mean, actually see what the ship sees? Several cruise ship websites have set up direct webcam feeds from their ships “bow cams” (the cameras on the bridge). A directory of cruise ship webcams can be found at Krooz-Cams.com.
Edit: Just for kicks I went to this site today and tried to locate all the fishing ships from the TV show “Deadliest Catch,” but I had no luck. I guess that makes sense – they don’t want the other fishing boats to know where they are!
David J. Hahn
David J. Hahn is a Broadway conductor and keyboard player. He co-founded MusicianWages.com with Cameron Mizell in 2008. Visit his new project, Songwriter.fm and sign up for his songwriting newsletter.
