After the Costa Concordia made the headlines by running onto a rock off the island of Giglio in Italy, QPS made the following reconstruction based on the AIS data. The company used its Qastor Pilotage software to replay the final minutes of the Costa Concordia and show the sort of warnings that are available to the mariner in today's software.

The Costa Concordia apparently had a habit of sailing close to the island of Giglio. On the 14th of August 2011, the Costa Concordia made a similar, but near-miss, passage as the one in January that resulted in the ship's grounding. The first close encounter took place near the same rock formation the ship hit in January (Punta di Castellari 238 m distance/13.8 kn), the second one at Punta di Lazaretto (with only 156 m distance/11.6 kn). QPS also made a reconstruction of this passage, which you can watch below.

'Steady as She Goes! Sailing by Mercator’s Map' is the new exhibition at the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam. Apart from an article by the museum's curator Ron Brand in SWZ Maritime (November edition), below two videos with Jack Wouterse and navigation specialist Wouter Heijveld introducing the exhibition. The first is a short commercial that introduces the exhibition, the second gives more background information and shows that even navigantion specialists can get seasick.