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LRIT. A formerly straightforward application of Inmarsat C used to report one's position to one's managing kremlin entirely screwed up by IMO. IMHO 'conformance testing', when the application became mandatory and the report also submitted to vessel's flag state, centred around the cost of the airtime to which Flag would be committed and therefore obsessed with avoiding the unnecessary 'restarting' messages (which owners using the application with excellent service providers such as Purplefinder, had been swallowing for some years).

If I sound jaundiced it is because the industry that sprung up around it becoming mandatory was bent on sweeping all the morons available into their employment.

(However, if one did have a defaulting client one could - here I conjecture only you must understand - leave in place the DNID on their vessel's CSat when it leaves management. Then the defaulting client may be surprised should his vessel call at a port where the Admiralty Marshall's writ runs well to find her position has been reported to creditors on a daily basis. No one would ever, ever, do this though would they?)

AIS. A system that would have allowed Capt. Smith to view a suitably equipped vessel which might otherwise have been hidden by floating ice.