Resilience

Designing vessels that stay capable when the link drops, the core ShipboardAI story.

Resilience4 min read

ChatGPT Went Down for 90 Minutes

ChatGPT went down for 90 minutes on April 20. For desk workers, that is an inconvenience. For a vessel at sea, it is an architecture problem.

James Calder·April 22, 2026

Resilience4 min read

What the Starlink Outage Actually Proved

A Starlink outage grounded Pentagon drone tests this week. The same single-provider risk threatens every vessel running cloud AI.

James Calder·April 17, 2026

Resilience5 min read

Gigabit Starlink Won't Fix Vessel AI

SpaceX is talking gigabit speeds for Starlink in 2026. Here is why throughput is the wrong thing to focus on for vessel AI.

James Calder·April 9, 2026

Resilience6 min read

Crew Management Without the Cloud

On-vessel AI handles crew scheduling, certifications, and compliance for 2,000+ crew without relying on a satellite link.

James Calder·March 25, 2026

Resilience6 min read

Engine Monitoring at Sea: A Hard AI Problem

Cloud-based predictive maintenance breaks down at sea. Here is why catching engine trouble mid-ocean is a harder AI problem than it looks from shore.

James Calder·March 18, 2026

Resilience5 min read

Why Cloud AI Fails at Sea

Your satellite link cannot support cloud-based AI on a vessel. Here is why, and what actually works 200 miles from shore.

James Calder·March 4, 2026