shooting during night time

i have an optio w80, i heard that it is an trouble camera, but the shots i took were not hazy, how ever, i try t to take shots during night time, no moonlight, only light coming from vessels and offshore constructions with poor photo's as an result, i have try t to do it with an higher sensitivity but i could get it right,

is there an simple solution ?

If the only light you have is emanating from vessels and rigs, etc then I'm afraid that all you are gonna get is little "dots" of light on your picture. In order to capture the vessel or rig itself, I'd say it's best to grab those shots as the sun is setting. If you raise the ISO level up to, say 1600 ISO, 3200 ISO, etc, the resulting image would be so noisy that it would simply defeat the object of the exercise.

Bottom line is - there's low light, and there's low light. You seem to be trying to capture shots with virtually no light (if I understand your post correctly).

The only way you are going to get anything in light that low is to use a tripod and a very long exposure time

yes thats what happend ! I now know there is not allot more i can do. thank you steven and steve.