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Originally Posted by Belmont Resident
From what I'm told the MP's have been equipped with night vision which allows them to see as clear as day at night and at a great distance.
Not sure where the money is coming from but from my understanding a lot of the boats have this and it is not cheap.
I'm with LIforrelaxin, why is there always someone willing to give boaters a bad name by doing what they know is wrong?
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They most likely have standard thermal IR cameras, which are anything but "clear as day". They could potentially see heat from people on boats. Less so if you are in the cabin, but rather easily if you were on the deck. Working range on an ~$15,000 camera would be around 1 mile, giving you the ability to see something with enough to detail, but more likely would be a unit with an ~1/2 mile range.
I have a couple of these cameras if you ever want to see what the images look like (note, the image is pretty much the same day or night, since it sees heat, not light. So you don't need to go out at 3AM to see how it works).