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US military prepares to board Iran-linked vessels - WSJ | УНН
https://unn.ua/en/news/us-military-prepares-to-board-iran-linked-vessels-wsj

Kremlin threatens to deploy navy if Europe seizes more Russian shadow fleet vessels: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/kremlin-threatens-to-deploy-navy.html

India said it had called in the Iranian envoy to New Delhi
and flagged its “deep concern” over the attack on two Indian-flagged ships attempting to cross the strait of Hormuz on Saturday.
One of the vessels attacked was identified as the Sanmar Herald,
an Indian government source told Reuters.
The crew on board and the vessel were safe, the source said.
India’s top foreign ministry official asked the Iranian ambassador to convey India’s view to Iranian authoritie…

2 Indian vessels fired upon, forced to reverse course in Hormuz (Sonali Verma/India Today)
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/strait-of-hormuz-hit-by-gunfire-as-iran-reimposes-control-middle-east-war-us-2898176-2026-04-18
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p34#a260418p34

"This ghost octopus is facing a new threat"
#Octopus #Animals
https://news…

This ghost octopus is facing a new threat
China is one of the biggest players in the race to mine the deep sea — and a joint Mongabay-CNN investigation shows that over the past five years, eight Chinese research vessels have been busy exploring for minerals in zones designated to Chinese companies. These eight ships spent more than 800 days inside these deep-sea […]

The U.S. military is preparing to board Iran-linked oil tankers and seize commercial ships in international waters, expanding its naval crackdown beyond the Middle East.
The planning comes as the Iranian military continues to tighten its grip on the Strait of Hormuz,
attacking several commercial vessels on Saturday
as it declared the waterway was being “strictly controlled” by Iran.
The developments sent shipping companies scrambling a day after
Iran's foreig…

After 4 made it through. 60% success...
Six vessels turned around by US blockade of Iran ports
https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/security/six-vessels-turned-around-by-us-blockade-of-iran-ports

Iran temporarily reopened the strait of Hormuz on Friday after a truce agreement between Israeland Lebanon,
raising hopes for a broader peace,
-- but Tehran warned that it would close the waterway again if the US naval blockade of Iranian ports continued.
Foreign minister Abbas Araqchi announced the global energy chokepoint was open for all commercial vessels for the remainder of the 10-day, US-brokered truce agreed on Thursday
and Donald Trump said Iran’s move marked…

For everyone who thought oil & gas markets would calm down already: Three cargo vessels hit in the Strait of Hormuz today.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cd70wzw9vqlt?post=asset:9084e0db-f059-434b-8964-156ec0321d30#post

Cargo ship catches fire in Strait of Hormuz after three vessels hit by 'unknown projectiles'
The reports of attacks on commercial ships came after the US said it "eliminated" 16 Iranian mine-layers in the area. Elsewhere, two drones were downed near Dubai airport.

U.S. Cadets Were Stuck in the Persian Gulf After Trump Bombed Iran - NOTUS — News of the United States https://www.notus.org/defense/us-cadets-vessels-stuck-persian-gulf-trump-bombing-iran-war

U.S. Cadets Were Stuck in the Persian Gulf After Trump Bombed Iran
The Trump administration failed to warn vessels with close ties to the U.S. military ahead of the strikes, leaving them trapped in the region.

Iran foreign minister says passage though Hormuz strait is open during ceasefire
Passage through the strait will be on the coordinated route announced by the Ports and Maritime Organisation of Iran
Trump says US naval blockade of Iranian ports will remain until deal is reached

“[he argued] he committed no wrongdoing because he believed coast guard vessels should wait to be tasked before responding to a distress call. "
Absolutely shocking. Goes against everything I ever learned on the water when I was out fishing with my dad.
If you hear a distress call on the radio that means it is near you... you drop everything, and you help.
For this guy... a captain in the Coast Guard!!... to “wait for instructions” is beyond the pale.
Seconds are life on the ocean.
Smug dude looks like an entitled ass and a coward….
Glad he was fired.
#safety #boating #RCCG

It's the economics of war, stupid!
"During the #Iran-Iraq war, America reflagged dozens of Kuwaiti tankers and escorted them through #Hormuz with the help of some 30 warships. Convoys of two or three tankers and several naval vessels departed, on average, once a week. Today, t…

Amid concerns that Iran plans to choke off the world’s access to oil,
the U.S. military said Tuesday that its forces had attacked 16 Iranian #mine-laying vessels near a major oil route.
The U.S. Central Command said on social media Tuesday evening that it had struck the vessels near the Strait of Hormuz.
A video accompanying the post showed munitions hitting nine vessels, most of which were …

Iran Live Updates: U.S. Says It Struck Iranian Mine-Laying Vessels Near Strait of Hormuz
Whether any mines had been laid in the Strait of Hormuz since the war began on Feb. 28 is unclear. The Pentagon said 140 American service members had been wounded, eight severely, in the war.

"The crew was hungry, the crew was angry, and we tried to survive only day-by-day."
"Back in 2016, 20 ships were abandoned around the world, according to the ITF. In 2025 the number had ballooned to 410, with 6,223 merchant seamen falling victim. Both of those figures for last year were up by almost a third on 2024."
https://www.…

The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers
A growing number of tankers and other commercial vessels are being ditched by their owners.

Hilflos.
Ausgeliefert.
Seeleute auf Schiffen bei Straße von Hormus
Ca. 20.000 laut IMO dort
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/06/seafarers-trapped-oil-tankers-standed-iran-war-strait-of-hormu…

Donald Trump on Sunday said the U.S. Navy would swiftly begin a blockade of ships entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz, after U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan ended without an agreement.
U.S. Central Command announced that it will blockade all Iranian ports beginning Monday at 10 a.m. EDT, or 5:30 p.m. in Iran.
CENTCOM said the blockade will be “enforced impartially against vessels of all nations.”
It said it would still allow ships traveling between non-Iranian port…

US military warns it will blockade Iranian ports after ceasefire talks ended
U.S. Central Command says it will begin a blockade of all Iranian ports on Monday at 10 a.m. EDT, or 5:30 p.m. in Iran. CENTCOM said the blockade would be “enforced impartially against vessels of all nations." But it will allow ships traveling between non-Iranian ports to transit the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump wants to weaken Iran’s strategic leverage in the war after demanding that it reopen the strait to all global shipping. He told the Navy to intercept vessels paying tolls…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/08/us-iran-ceasefire-mass-exodus-ships-strait-hormuz-analysts

U.S. destroys 16 Iranian vessels amid worries of mines in Strait of Hormuz (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/hormuz-strait-mines-war-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p144#a260310p144

#OTD in 1788, the final seven ships joined the four vessels of the #FirstFleet already in #BotanyBay. (HMS Supply arrived on 18 Jan; three others on 19 Jan.)
Four days later, the two vessels of the French La Perou…

Derivation and analysis of a Stokes-transport system in evolving vessels modeling thermoregulation in human skin
Kilian Hacker, Maria Neuss-Radu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08788

The Trump administration, spooked by possible preparations by Iran to mine the strait,
Carried out strikes against 16 mine-laying vessels near the strait on Tuesday.
US Central Command posted a video showing munitions hitting nine vessels, most of which were moored as they were struck.
But the more potent threat remains the risk of a direct attack by Iran at scale
– for instance, a swarm of one-way attack drones or a series of shore-to-ship ballistic missiles, accordi…

Trump says US destroyed 10 'inactive' Iranian mine-laying vessels (Claire Carter/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/4487328/trump-us-iran-mine-laying-boats-hormuz/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p99#a260310p99

UK prime minister Keir Starmer
and French president Emmanuel Macron
will co-host a summit in Paris on Friday
focused on efforts to reopen the strait of Hormuz, Downing Street said.
A spokesperson said: “The summit will advance work towards a coordinated, independent, multinational plan
to safeguard international shipping once the conflict ends.”
Macron has previously said the countries participating in the initiative would work on a
“strictly defensiv…

In its first act of goodwill since the declaration of a ceasefire,
on Wednesday Iran permitted a container ship loaded with copies of the Epstein files to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
“In recent weeks, the closure of the Strait has cut off the world’s supply of Epstein files,”
an Iranian government statement read.
“Now, those files will flow freely to the four corners of the globe.”
Although Iran is charging vessels millions for safe passage through the S…

Iran Allows Ship Loaded With Epstein Files Through Strait of Hormuz
Although Iran is charging vessels millions for safe passage through the Strait, “We are sending the Epstein files through free of charge,” they said.

US military 'drawing up additional options' to keep strait of Hormuz open, says White House
Karoline Leavitt said that Donald Trump is committed to allowing the free flow of oil through the strait of Hormuz,
and reiterated that the US president has offered for the navy
“to escort tankers when necessary”.
“The US military is drawing up additional options following the president’s directive to continue keeping the strait of Hormuz open,” Leavitt said.
I wil…

Britain's Keir Starmer has agreed with Germany’s Friedrich Merz and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni to “work closely together” in navigating commercial shipping through the strait of Hormuz.
A spokesperson for Starmer said the prime minister spoke to the leaders of Germany and Italy on Monday night “about the situation in the Middle East, discussing the strait of Hormuz.”
He said:
They agreed on the vital importance of freedom of navigation for vessels through these waters. They ag…

I'd like to once again point out that Trump really really wants to be a dictator. So no surprise that he has single handedly started trade wars with hundreds of countries, blown up fishing vessels in the Caribbean, kidnapped foreign leaders, ignored court orders, launched illegal wars and likely will attempt stop the mid-term elections. There is zero oversight by the U.S. government and he does what he wants, or perhaps more accurately what his handlers want. The only thing slowing him down is his own stupidity and the incompetence of the team he chose to implement his executive orders.
To demonstrate the moronic level of his wanna be dictatorship, compare Hitler using the Olympics to showcase Nazi Germany versus Trump hosting a UFC bout on the White House lawn on July 4th.
#YouHadaGoodRunAmerica

Countries meet to press Iran to reopen strait
In a televised address Wednesday night, Trump said countries that depend on oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz “must grab it and cherish it”
— because the U.S. would not.
No country appears willing to try and open the strait by force while fighting rages and Iran can target vessels with anti-ship missiles, drones, attack craft and mines.
French President Emmanuel Macron said opening the strait by force is “unrealist…

An Iranian official has said that
with the right security and safety arrangements
the strait of Hormuz is open to all vessels
-- except the ships of “enemy” countries,
according to Iran’s Mehr news agency.
Iran’s representative to the UN’s International Maritime Organization,
Ali Mousavi,
was quoted as having said that US-Israeli “aggression”
was the “root” of the key oil passage remaining effectively closed.
“Diplomacy remains Iran’s pri…