Connect to the world's most comprehensive maritime weather and ocean resource.
OCENS WeatherNet offers an extensive collection of weather and buoy charts, ocean data, text reports, satellite imagery, interactive GRIB (gridded binary) weather and ocean products, news, and sports. This service also includes access to WeatherNet Europe, with specific content for maritime customers navigating European waters.
All materials are available quickly, economically, and on demand over the Globalstar satellite network to OCENS WeatherNet for Globalstar subscribers. OCENS interactive system provides you with a price per item, and a compressed file transfer time estimate, before you download a single chart or report. This enables you to effectively manage charges to suit your budget.
Before you put out to sea, purchase a data kit from a Globalstar Authorised Dealer. Install the included software, or visit OCENS to start using OCENS WeatherNet today.*
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*Subject to an activation fee, and charges for each downloaded item.
Testimonial of the success of OCENS Weather Net:
UK Fishing News reports in there 26 January, 2007 issue:
Fraserburgh Team Set New Pair-Seine Record, thanks to the help of OCENS Weather Net!
A Fraserburgh pai-seine team, skippers Fred West and Kevin West set a new grossing record for a single trip on January 16, 2007, grossed £118,700 when they landed 1448 boxes at Peterhead. The skippers quick to acknowledge the major contribution to the record breaking trip made by Oceans Weather Net systems, fitted recently to Ryanwood and Castlewood.
“The information received by the systems and updated every six hours through the boats satellite phones proved invaluable to both fishing efficiency and crew safety throughout the trip”
“If we had not decided to fit OCENS Weather Net we would not have established a new record – It’s as simple as that”.
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