Apply for membership

Membership is open to everyone for now. Use an e-mail address you read: a person reads every application, and the answer comes to that address – usually within a day or two.

As a member you also get

Owners, managers and companiesThe registered owner, the ship and commercial managers, the P&I club, and which of them are sanctioned (OpenSanctions, Global Fishing Watch registries).
Global Fishing WatchA ship's last 90 days: port visits, loitering, meetings at sea, AIS gaps likely made on purpose; 12 months of AIS coverage; registries and illegal-fishing lists.
Satellite imagesFor every event: the Sentinel-1 radar images (through clouds and darkness) and Sentinel-2 optical images of that place and day, to see what was there.
Track history – 30 days backWhere a ship has been, from the site's own recording.

E-mail address:

One you read: the answer to your application is sent here.

First name:

Last name:

Organisation:

Optional: a newsroom, university, company or none.

What will you use it for?

A sentence or two is enough, e.g. the story, research or work you have in mind.

Password:

Your password can’t be too similar to your other personal information.
Your password must contain at least 10 characters.
Your password can’t be a commonly used password.
Your password can’t be entirely numeric.

Password again:

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