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When you place that transmitter on the boat, it presents the boat in the integrated display along with all of the AIS targets. It was a way of bring- ing these smaller boats into a com- mon operational picture of all vessels that were involved in the response.” “This is really the first time, cer- tainly at this level of magnitude, that private boat operators were brought into a response like this,”

Rosenberger said. “I think the term ‘vessels of opportunity’ is apropos.

The idea that we could apply com- mercial, off the shelf solutions to bring those boats into a unified dis- play, along with the big guys, along with the skimmers and the patrol boats and all of the other vessels that were in it for the long haul, is some- thing that I’m not aware has been done before.” “As you can imagine, things moved

The PV-OnBoard device used in the

Deepwater Horizon spill response to allow non-AIS enabled vessels of opportunity to show up on PortVision’s integrated dis- play.