Built by Lürssen in 1994 and designed by Jon Bannenberg, the 73-metre Coral Ocean was extensively modernised in a 2022 refit and has always been defined by forward-thinking engineering. Panoblu joined that evolution in Palma, bringing continuous 360° situational awareness to the bridge.
Why traditional PTZ cameras don't give you the full picture
On Coral Ocean, the captain and ETO wanted a clearer, round-the-clock picture of their surroundings without anyone having to actively manage camera feeds from the bridge.
While the mast already carried two PTZ dome cameras, they came with the usual limitations: each could only look in one direction at a time, leaving blind spots outside the frame, and picture quality dropped off significantly after dark.
What the team were after was a single, unbroken view around the entire vessel, one that worked just as reliably at night as in broad daylight, with zero manual steering.
