KitScout

Categories › Knowledge & Everyday › Maps, travel & weather

Open Waters AIS

MCP serverVerified domain · openwaters.ioRemote● LiveFree to try

Live AIS vessel positions by MMSI, name, area, or radius, plus coverage. No sign-in, no key.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to ais.openwaters.io. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http open-waters-ais https://ais.openwaters.io/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

  • find_vessels_in_area — Vessels currently inside a latitude/longitude bounding box, newest report first, with optional kind and ship-type filters. Anonymous calls m
  • find_vessels_near — Vessels within a radius (default 10 NM, maximum 50) of a point or of another vessel's last known position, nearest first, each with distance
  • get_coverage — Where Open Waters AIS is hearing AIS right now: sources with their current delay, stations, freshness, and vessel counts. A bounding box add
  • get_vessel_track — The positions heard from one vessel over a time range, oldest first, with speed, course, and navigational status. Positions implying an impo
  • get_vessels — Last known position and particulars of specific vessels by MMSI (Maritime Mobile Service Identity), or by IMO number with a feeder or partne
  • search_vessels_by_name — Vessels whose name contains the text, case-insensitive, among every vessel the network has heard, each with its MMSI and last known position

KitScout test notes

Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.

Similar tools