#indianocean — Public Fediverse posts

The #oilpipeline was providing partial bypass for the blocked-off #StraitofHormuz in the #PersianGulf, through the #RedSea. If the Houthis block the Bab al-Mandeb strait, the marine traffic between the #Meditteranean sea and the #IndianOcean through the #SuezCanal and #RedSea would be cutoff.

With this, Iran now controls a second marine choke point through their proxy. And with the oil bypass pipeline shutdown, expect the #CrudeOil prices to rise further.

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The #oilpipeline was providing partial bypass for the blocked-off #StraitofHormuz in the #PersianGulf, through the #RedSea. If the Houthis block the Bab al-Mandeb strait, the marine traffic between the #Meditteranean sea and the #IndianOcean through the #SuezCanal and #RedSea would be cutoff.

With this, Iran now controls a second marine choke point through their proxy. And with the oil bypass pipeline shutdown, expect the #CrudeOil prices to rise further.

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The #oilpipeline was providing partial bypass for the blocked-off #StraitofHormuz in the #PersianGulf, through the #RedSea. If the Houthis block the Bab al-Mandeb strait, the marine traffic between the #Meditteranean sea and the #IndianOcean through the #SuezCanal and #RedSea would be cutoff.

With this, Iran now controls a second marine choke point through their proxy. And with the oil bypass pipeline shutdown, expect the #CrudeOil prices to rise further.

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The #oilpipeline was providing partial bypass for the blocked-off #StraitofHormuz in the #PersianGulf, through the #RedSea. If the Houthis block the Bab al-Mandeb strait, the marine traffic between the #Meditteranean sea and the #IndianOcean through the #SuezCanal and #RedSea would be cutoff.

With this, Iran now controls a second marine choke point through their proxy. And with the oil bypass pipeline shutdown, expect the #CrudeOil prices to rise further.

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The #oilpipeline was providing partial bypass for the blocked-off #StraitofHormuz in the #PersianGulf, through the #RedSea. If the Houthis block the Bab al-Mandeb strait, the marine traffic between the #Meditteranean sea and the #IndianOcean through the #SuezCanal and #RedSea would be cutoff.

With this, Iran now controls a second marine choke point through their proxy. And with the oil bypass pipeline shutdown, expect the #CrudeOil prices to rise further.

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Anatomy Of A Seafloor Spreading Event Captured By In Situ Seismogeodesy
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10785-0 <-- shared paper
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-a-first-scientists-witness-the-seafloor-spread-in-real-time-giving-them-a-rare-glimpse-at-a-mysterious-geologic-process-180989123/ <-- shared technical media article
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H/T @Seabed 2030
“🔍 For the first time, scientists have observed seafloor spreading in real time.
Seafloor spreading is the process by which new oceanic crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges - a geological process that has shaped entire ocean basins over millions of years.
During a research expedition in the Indian Ocean, scientists had just deployed a suite of instruments when a series of earthquakes triggered a seafloor spreading event, allowing them to observe the process as it unfolded.
The findings offer rare new insights into how new oceanic crust forms and how the seafloor continues to evolve…”
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“Earth’s outermost layer - the crust - is constantly renewing itself. It’s broken into giant chunks called tectonic plates that pull apart, push against or slide past one another, creating grand geologic features.
Underwater mountain ranges, or mid-ocean ridges, for instance, generally take shape where two tectonic plates are moving away from each other. Magma can then bubble up in between, solidifying and turning into new oceanic crust as part of a process called seafloor spreading. Although the phenomenon has created entire ocean basins, it remains quite mysterious because it happens so deep in the water.
Now, for the first time, scientists have observed this dynamic activity happening in real time. They describe their findings - and their stroke of luck - in a study [link above], shedding light on a mechanism that made roughly two-thirds of Earth’s crust…”
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#Seabed2030 #OceanMapping #Hydrospatial #remotesensing #seafloor #seafloorspreading #oceanic #crust #geology #structuralgeology #IndianOcean #earthquake #midoceanridge #instrumentation #marine #seabed #hydrography #model #modeling #mapping #GIS #spatial #tectonicplates #magma #fortuitous #survey #seismogeodetic #monitoring #submarine #rifting #observation #volcanism #seismicity #dyke #fault #faulting #midoceanridge #MOR

Thursday, July 23, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/thursday-july-23-2026/

Middle East states eye transport resilience with new logistics corridor to bypass Hormuz

Middle Eastern governments are dusting off decades-old proposals for overland oil and gas pipelines, and urgently drawing up…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #AbuDhabiPorts #Aqaba #AxisofResistance #Business #CA #Canada #Ceyhan #dpworld #Egypt #HejazRailway #Hormuz #IndianOcean #Irán #iraq #Israel #Jeddah #Jordan #Kirkuk
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/644556/

Friday, February 20, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-20-2026/

#BlueWhales: first discovery near #Seychelles in decades https://theconversation.com/blue-whales-first-discovery-near-seychelles-in-decades-what-our-study-found-224558 paper: https://discovery.fiu.edu/display/pub284893

"the archipelago was an opportunistic whaling ground for #Soviet #whaling fleets en route to and from the #Antarctic. In the northern #IndianOcean, #whalers illegally killed more than 1,200 blue #whales, including 500 near the Seychelles, between 1963 and '66... After surveying about 5,500 km, we had a total of 5 sightings of up to 10 blue whales. This was a phenomenal finding."

Ocean giants return to safe tropical haven
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67496339

"#BlueWhales are making their home in a part of the #IndianOcean where they were wiped out decades ago. #Researchers in the #Seychelles captured footage of the #whales in 2020 and 2021... a year of audio recording revealed the #animals spend months in the region... they could be breeding there. The researchers described the #discovery as a #conservation win after the #Soviet #whaling fleet decimated the population in the 1960s."

https://archive.org/details/early-printing-in

Early Printing in Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar and the Seychelles by Auguste Toussaint

Topics
#Mauritius, #Réunion, #Madagascar, #Seychelles, #printing, #printculture, #printcultures, #literacy, #printhistory, #colonialism, #frenchcolonialism, #IndianOcean, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #indianoceanworld, #Mascarenes, #frenchempire

The Spread of Printing: Eastern Hemisphere

https://archive.org/details/early-printing-in

Early Printing in Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar and the Seychelles by Auguste Toussaint

Topics
#Mauritius, #Réunion, #Madagascar, #Seychelles, #printing, #printculture, #printcultures, #literacy, #printhistory, #colonialism, #frenchcolonialism, #IndianOcean, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #indianoceanworld, #Mascarenes, #frenchempire

The Spread of Printing: Eastern Hemisphere

https://archive.org/details/early-printing-in

Early Printing in Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar and the Seychelles by Auguste Toussaint

Topics
#Mauritius, #Réunion, #Madagascar, #Seychelles, #printing, #printculture, #printcultures, #literacy, #printhistory, #colonialism, #frenchcolonialism, #IndianOcean, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #indianoceanworld, #Mascarenes, #frenchempire

The Spread of Printing: Eastern Hemisphere

https://archive.org/details/early-printing-in

Early Printing in Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar and the Seychelles by Auguste Toussaint

Topics
#Mauritius, #Réunion, #Madagascar, #Seychelles, #printing, #printculture, #printcultures, #literacy, #printhistory, #colonialism, #frenchcolonialism, #IndianOcean, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #indianoceanworld, #Mascarenes, #frenchempire

The Spread of Printing: Eastern Hemisphere

https://archive.org/details/early-printing-in

Early Printing in Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar and the Seychelles by Auguste Toussaint

Topics
#Mauritius, #Réunion, #Madagascar, #Seychelles, #printing, #printculture, #printcultures, #literacy, #printhistory, #colonialism, #frenchcolonialism, #IndianOcean, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #indianoceanworld, #Mascarenes, #frenchempire

The Spread of Printing: Eastern Hemisphere

Some spinner dolphins, just for the love of them. Not sure Mastodon will work for me, but happy to find others working on marine conservation science or any of the hashtags:
#coralreef #mangrove #saltmarsh #shark #turtle #dolphin #climatechange #thenatureconservancy #wilditaly #chagos #indianocean #marinescience #ecosystemservices