🚢 Follow the Ship — live AIS map real-time positions
Every vessel in and around the canal, live. Find your ship here, watch it move station-to-station, and load the matching camera below as it approaches. Click a ship for its name, speed & heading. Tip: search the vessel’s name or IMO on VesselFinder ↗ or MarineTraffic ↗ for its dedicated tracking page with ETA.
Scope: this feed plots only vessels actively broadcasting AIS — merchant traffic, ferries, tugs and most pleasure craft. Naval combatants, and submarines in particular, routinely transit with AIS off, so they will not appear here no matter how far you zoom. A missing warship is the feed working correctly, not a fault.
📹 Camera Stations
Every usable camera along the boat’s route, ordered by the journey: Baltic approach → Holtenau lock → mid-canal → Brunsbüttel lock → Elbe → open sea. Nothing streams until you press ▶ on a station (data-saver) — press ⏸ Unload All anytime to stop all data flow.
🗺️ Explore — map + street-level walk satellite · street view · earth 3D
Click any pin (or a “🚶 Walk” link in the table) to load it in the box on the right, then toggle 🚶 Street View / 🛰️ Satellite — both render in-box. 🌍 Earth opens in a new tab (Google blocks embedding it).
📍 Waypoints
Each waypoint links to the exact Google Maps satellite pin from the original document.
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