live_ships_in_area

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Live ship positions right now in a geographic area, from AIS radio broadcasts — what vessels are sailing near a port, coastline, strait or set of coordinates at this moment. Returns each vessel heard with its position, speed, course, navigational status, type, destination and IMO where broadcast, plus a breakdown by vessel type (cargo, tanker, passenger, fishing, tug). Give either a centre point (latitude + longitude + radius_km) or a bounding box. COVERAGE IS PARTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL — there is no receiver coverage in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, Gulf of Oman or Red Sea, so this tool cannot answer questions about those waters (use chokepoint_status for Hormuz/Suez/Bab el-Mandeb transit counts instead). Counts are vessels heard during a listening window of a few seconds, not a complete count of vessels present.