Back in 1923, when entrepreneur W.H. Wickersham first hired professional lookouts to monitor vessel movement throughout the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in the outer harbor, he probably had no idea how indispensable to vessel traffic monitoring that his Marine Exchange and Sailing Club of the Port of Los Angeles would eventually become. But 100 years later, the exchange, now known as the Marine Exchange of Southern California (MX SoCal), has evolved over the decades to play a fundamental—and highly crucial—role in the world of maritime traffic. “We’ve adopted as our tagline ‘Providing Maritime Peace of Mind Since 1923’,”…