Networking5 min read
Starlink V3: Faster Pipe, Same Problem
SpaceX's V3 satellites promise 1 Tbps per bird. For vessel AI, the throughput was never the bottleneck. The architecture stays local.
Ethan Marsh·May 27, 2026
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Security & Compliance4 min read
USCG Cyber Rule Meets Vessel AI
The USCG cybersecurity rule hits its July milestone in six weeks. The IT/OT segmentation mandate validates sovereign vessel AI architecture.
Ethan Marsh·May 25, 2026
Edge AI11 min read
Voice AI for Multilingual Yacht Crews
Build, buy, or self-host voice assistants for multilingual yacht crews. Real latency numbers for Whisper, Piper, and Deepgram on vessel hardware.
Ethan Marsh·May 24, 2026
Industry Insights4 min read
Cruise AI Fails on Data, Not Models
Seatrade says cruise AI fails because the data layer is broken. They are right. But fixing it means fixing where the data lives, not just how it connects.
Marcus Hale·May 22, 2026
Security & Compliance5 min read
npm Worms and the Case for Air Gaps
A worm compromised 633 npm packages in an hour. On-vessel software needs air-gapped dependency pipelines, not live registry pulls.
Ethan Marsh·May 20, 2026
Edge AI5 min read
MSC's AI Concierge: One Missing Answer
MSC's AI concierge processed a million guest messages at 93% satisfaction. Nobody asked where those conversations live or what happens offline.
Marcus Hale·May 18, 2026
Infrastructure12 min read
Vessel GPU Racks: Power, Cooling, Security
The unglamorous realities of deploying GPU compute on a vessel. Power budgets, thermal management, vibration isolation, and physical access control.
James Calder·May 17, 2026
Security & Compliance4 min read
When Cyber Risk Meets Voyage Planning
ABB and Cydome are merging cyber risk and voyage optimization into one platform. The real question is where that platform runs.
Marcus Hale·May 15, 2026
Security & Compliance5 min read
AI Found the OT Gateway First
Dragos found attackers using Claude to identify OT targets inside a water utility. Vessel operators should assume the same capability applies at sea.
Marcus Hale·May 11, 2026
Security & Compliance11 min read
Zero-Trust Networks for Private Vessels
Most vessel networks were designed for convenience, not security. A practical zero-trust architecture for superyacht IT and OT segmentation.
Marcus Hale·May 10, 2026
Edge AI4 min read
Why MSC's Robot Dogs Need Local AI
MSC Cruises is putting AI robot dogs and digital avatars on its ships. Every one of those systems proves why compute has to live on the vessel.
James Calder·May 8, 2026
Strategy4 min read
The MASS Code Endorses Sovereign AI
The IMO's autonomous vessel code requires ships to operate safely without shore connections. That is a regulatory endorsement of AI that lives on board.
James Calder·May 6, 2026
Strategy4 min read
Hormuz Convoys: Cloud AI Goes Dark First
The US military is escorting stranded vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. Cloud-dependent AI stops working the moment a ship joins the convoy.
James Calder·May 4, 2026
Edge AI11 min read
Agentic Workflows for Yacht Concierge
How to architect a multi-tool AI concierge that handles guest requests on a charter yacht, with or without a satellite link.
Ethan Marsh·May 3, 2026
Strategy4 min read
Royal Caribbean's AI Blind Spot
Royal Caribbean told Wall Street that AI drives its $4.5 billion revenue engine. The question nobody asked: what happens when the satellite link drops?
James Calder·May 1, 2026
Security & Compliance5 min read
AI Gateways Are a Single Point of Failure
A critical LiteLLM SQL injection hands attackers every API key the proxy stores. Vessel operators relying on cloud AI gateways take note.
Marcus Hale·April 29, 2026
Security & Compliance5 min read
APT28 Targets Maritime Supply Chains
Russia's APT28 is deploying PRISMEX malware against NATO maritime logistics. Here is what vessel operators need to know about this active campaign.
Marcus Hale·April 27, 2026
Networking10 min read
Starlink, OneWeb, Iridium for AI at Sea
A working comparison of Starlink Maritime, Eutelsat OneWeb, and Iridium Certus for vessel AI workloads. What each is good for, and what breaks at sea.
James Calder·April 26, 2026
Security & Compliance5 min read
Three CVEs in Your Vessel Data Gateway
Cydome found authentication and path-traversal flaws in the NAVTOR NavBox. The fix matters less than what the bugs reveal about maritime OT security.
Marcus Hale·April 24, 2026
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
Edge AI6 min read
Kimi K2.6: 1T Parameters, 8 H200s Required
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 ships natively in INT4 at 1T parameters. Open weights, world-class agent benchmarks, and a hardware bill that starts at 8 H200s.
Ethan Marsh·April 21, 2026
Security & Compliance5 min read
When Ransomware Reaches the Engine Room
Maritime cyber incidents doubled in 2025, with ransomware now targeting engine and ballast systems. Local-first AI reduces the blast radius.
Ethan Marsh·April 20, 2026
Edge AI12 min read
Deploying a 70B LLM Offline at Sea
Hardware, quantization, and serving stack for running Llama 3.1 70B on a vessel with no cloud fallback. Real specs and real benchmarks.
Ethan Marsh·April 19, 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
Edge AI4 min read
First Yacht OEM Ships Local-First AI
Next Yacht Group is shipping on-vessel AI as a standard feature across its entire range. Here is why that changes the conversation for every yacht owner.
James Calder·April 15, 2026
Strategy4 min read
1,500 Cloud Agents, One Satellite Link
Virgin Voyages grew to 1,500 cloud AI agents in four months. The results are real. So is the connectivity risk nobody is discussing.
James Calder·April 13, 2026
Security & Compliance13 min read
CMMC Compliance for Superyachts
Most superyachts are not DoD contractors, but CMMC and NIST 800-171 still matter. The compliance map: what applies and what to build.
Marcus Hale·April 12, 2026
Infrastructure18 min read
On-Vessel GPU Selection Guide
Blackwell B200, H200, H100, L40S, and A100 compared for vessel deployments. When each is the right call and the power realities.
James Calder·April 11, 2026
Security & Compliance6 min read
Mythos Zero-Days and Fleet Security
Anthropic's Mythos found thousands of zero-days in partner infrastructure. Here is what that means for vessel fleet cybersecurity.
Marcus Hale·April 10, 2026
Edge AI17 min read
KV Cache Quantization at Sea (3/3)
Google's TurboQuant compresses the KV cache to 3 bits with no accuracy loss. Here is what that means for a vessel GPU rack.
Ethan Marsh·April 10, 2026
Infrastructure15 min read
Unified Memory for Vessel AI
AMD Strix Halo and NVIDIA DGX Spark bring 128 GB of unified memory to a shelf-sized box for under $4,000. When to buy one.
James Calder·April 10, 2026
Networking6 min read
Satellite Internet: The Real Story
Starlink promised 200 Mbps. You are getting 11. What satellite connectivity actually looks like on a vessel and how to plan for it.
James Calder·April 9, 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
Infrastructure14 min read
1M Context: The GPU Math (2/3)
VRAM and KV cache math for models from 7B to 405B at 1M tokens. Per-user scaling for crew and guests. The numbers are ugly.
James Calder·April 7, 2026
Edge AI10 min read
Context vs. RAG on Vessels (1/3)
Vercel ran the eval: a compressed doc file beat on-demand retrieval 100% to 53%. What that means for AI deployments on vessels.
Ethan Marsh·April 4, 2026
Edge AI6 min read
AI Concierge That Works Mid-Ocean
Cloud chatbots fail when the ship leaves port. Here is what an on-vessel AI concierge looks like, and why guests will not notice.
James Calder·April 1, 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
Edge AI6 min read
Why Vessel Safety CV Has to Run Locally
Man overboard detection and deck safety monitoring are latency-sensitive problems. Here is why shore-side processing cannot meet the operational bar.
James Calder·March 11, 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