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Vessels tracked, live
The problem
More than 95% of intercontinental data crosses the ocean floor — through cables no thicker than a garden hose.
Gas pipelines, cross-border power links and offshore wind sit in the same place: underwater, out of sight, undefended. A single vessel dragging its anchor across the wrong stretch of seabed can take a nation offline, dark, or cold. This is not hypothetical. In the Baltic, cables and pipelines have been severed in sequence — vessels dragging anchors for miles, then switching off their transponders and vanishing. We usually learn of it after the cable is already cut.
Trafalgar Sentinel inverts the timeline. We see the behaviour as it develops — and put the evidence in front of an operator in seconds, not after the outage.
How it works
One source can be fooled. We cross-validate many.
A vessel can switch off its transponder or broadcast a false position. Trusting a single feed is blind. We layer independent sources so each one checks the others.
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Fuse
Live ship tracking from multiple AIS networks, layered with satellite radar, seabed depth, ocean currents, infrastructure geometry and four sanctions lists — held in one model.
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Reason
A pure detection engine reads behaviour: corridor incursion, anchor-drag confirmed against water depth, loitering with passive drift removed, transponder gaps, ship-to-ship transfer, spoofing and area jamming.
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Attribute
Every event carries its provenance and confidence: which vessel, which cable, how close, how long, under what flag, sanctioned or not — an exportable evidence package.
What we detect
Nine modules. One engine. Every one a real scenario.
Anchor-drag
A slow, irregular track over shallow water — the most common method of cutting a cable. Confirmed against seabed depth, now tuned to the transit-speed regime of the real Baltic incidents.
Loitering
A vessel lingering over an infrastructure corridor with no reason to. Passive current drift is removed so genuine station-keeping stands out.
Going dark
A transponder switched off inside a sensitive area — a vessel choosing to disappear.
Dark vessel (radar) Roadmap
A contact seen by satellite radar with no transponder at all. Fully silent, the most dangerous target. The CFAR engine is built; Sentinel-1 tip-and-cue is being brought online.
Shadow / sanctioned fleet
Live vessels screened against US OFAC, UK OFSI, EU and UN lists — plus a behavioural shadow-fleet profile beyond the lists.
Ship-to-ship transfer
Two vessels drifting alongside in open water for hours — the signature of sanctions-evading cargo transfer.
Position spoofing
Physically impossible jumps that reveal a falsified GPS position — with jamming victims correctly exonerated.
GPS jamming
Many vessels losing position together in one area — an electronic-warfare event, not an individual fault.
Zone intrusion
Any vessel entering a protection zone you draw — wind farm, port approach, military area — reported instantly.
VesselScore
A credit rating for ships.
Experian tells a lender whether to trust a borrower. VesselScore tells a navy, an insurer or a cable operator whether to trust a ship — a single 0–1000 rating, with the reasons that produced it, published alongside a data grade so a thin file is never quietly scored as clean.
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High Risk · Grade B
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- SN01 On an active sanctions list
- FL01 Flag on the Paris MoU black list
- ID01 Frequent flag changes (flag hopping)
- BH03 Suspected ship-to-ship transfer
Bureau-grade by design
Weighted components — sanctions exposure, behaviour, identity integrity, flag standing, inspection record — combine into one rating, then hard rules floor it the way a default floors a credit score.
Events that age
A transponder gap from six months ago should not weigh like one from last night. Events decay on a half-life; the profile persists. Standing is current, not historical.
Honest about ships, honest about people
No one can score a captain from public data without inventing it or breaching privacy. We score the management company — the unit the industry itself vets — and every vessel inherits it.
Where the data comes from
Open, licence-clean, and global.
We are not captive to a single expensive satellite subscription. The platform runs today on free, lawful, commercially-usable sources — worldwide, not one region.
Ship tracking (AIS)Free
- aisstream — global live AIS stream
- Fintraffic / Digitraffic — official Baltic feed, no key
- Kystverket (Norway) — North Sea & offshore coastal feed
- Architecture-ready: AISHub, Danish and other coastal feeds add in one line
Satellite radar (SAR)Roadmap
- Sentinel-1 (ESA Copernicus) — detection through night and cloud (CFAR engine built)
- Catches non-transmitting "dark" vessels via radar → AIS tip-and-cue
- Revisit ~6 days → near-real-time; live integration in progress
Infrastructure geometryOpen
- TeleGeography — submarine telecom cable routes
- EMODnet — pipelines and seabed infrastructure
- The exact geometry of the asset you protect is the basis of detection
Ocean & environmentOpen
- GEBCO — seabed depth (the anchor-drag gate)
- Copernicus Marine — currents, to remove passive drift
- Metocean context suppresses false alerts
Sanctions & flag standingOpen
- OFAC (US), UK OFSI, EU FSF and UN consolidated vessel lists
- Paris MoU flag performance (white / grey / black)
- Live vessel ↔ list and flag matching with IMO-confirmed precision
Our own archive (the lake)Proprietary
- Every position we observe is recorded, append-only
- Per-vessel history → pattern-of-life, cross-validation, VesselScore
- This archive compounds into our most valuable asset
Who we serve
One platform. Different value to each buyer.
Navies & coast guards
The institutions charged with defending national critical infrastructure.
Real-time threat detection with an attributable evidence package.
Cable, pipeline & wind operators
The owners of the assets on the seabed.
Asset protection, anchor-drag early warning, zone-intrusion alerting.
Marine insurers
The underwriters who must price risk correctly.
VesselScore, pattern-of-life, and a triaged anomaly queue.
Ports & government agencies
Port authorities, vessel-traffic services, national security.
Maritime domain awareness on a single operational picture.
Not a mock-up — caught on live data
Real AIS. Real alert.
The system flagged a sanctioned shadow-fleet tanker loitering beside a critical telecom cable.
ALERT · SHADOW_FLEET_WATCHLIST · score 75
TRITON (OFAC-sanctioned) → Sweden–Estonia EE-S 1 telecom cable · 202 m
at that moment: 27,000+ vessels tracked · 4 sanctions lists screened · VesselScore 188 / Severe
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Real vessels, real cables, real alerts — flowing right now.