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Qatar restores maritime traffic after two-week suspension

Qatar has fully resumed maritime navigation for all types of vessels after a two-week suspension imposed amid heightened security tensions in the Gulf and around the Strait of Hormuz. Qatar’s Transport Ministry announced that maritime activities would resume f…

https://justpaste.in/news/qatar-restores-maritime-traffic-after-two-week-suspension/

#titleStory #TopStory #USIsraelWaronIran #maritime #iran

The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection Introduces Its Summer 2028 Mediterranean & Northern Europe Season

Thoughtfully designed voyages across Europe balance iconic destinations with quieter coastal communities, creating space for unexpected moments of…
#Europe #EU #BroadcastFeedAnnoucement #HotelsandResorts #Inc. #Maritime&Shipbuilding #MarriottInternational #travel
https://www.europesays.com/europe/134163/

https://www.europesays.com/people/220100/ Sybiha, Kallas agree steps to ensure operation of Black Sea maritime corridor #corridor #food #KajaKallas #Maritime

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

Dragon Boat, (龍舟)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_boat

#NoGenAi #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #CamelCase #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Landscape #BlackAndWhitePhotography #LandscapePhotography #Bateaux #Bateau #Navire #Navires #DragonBoat #Boat #Boats #HongKong #China #Chinese #龍舟

On enchaîne sur le #musee #maritime, qui comprend 3 #bateaux et des espaces d'#exposition.
Parmi les bateaux, le plus intéressant est le France I, une ancienne station #meteo dans l'#ocean atlantique, qui a transmis les relevés météo de 1959 à 1985. Le navire a été sauvé de la casse par la ville de #LaRochelle.
Il y a aussi un chalutier et un remorqueur, tous classés #MonumentsHistoriques.
On finit par un hommage à l'émission Thalassa et à son créateur Georges Pernoud.

#photography #port

#FotoVorschlag 'Leuchtturm' / 'Lighthouse'

Am Cap d'Antifer in der Normandie ist dieser Leuchtturm der Geheimtipp, um touristischem Trubel zu entfliehen und die beeindruckende Steilküste zu sehen.

At Cap d'Antifer in Normandy, this lighthouse is a hidden gem for those looking to escape the tourist crowds and take in the impressive cliffs.

#photography #lighthouses #Leuchttürme #fotografie #maritime

Here's a quick look at Captain Drew's World, newly compiled and edited by W. H. Bunting, my favorite living maritime historian:

https://ericbender.co/history-of-the-harbor/

If you're interested in maritime and/or late 19th-century history, find a copy!

#history #Boston #maritime #sailing #tallship #biography

“#Turkey is #Looting #Somalia,” #SomaliMP @MPDrAbib alleges, accusing #Ankara of expanding its influence over #ports, #fisheries, #security & #maritime affairs. SO is becoming an arena of wider #Israeli-#Turkish competition in the #RedSea.

https://saxafimedia.com/turkey-looting-somalia-mp-erdogan/

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/tuesday-august-11-2026/

#StreetPhotography

It Was A Monday Morning

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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #CamelCase #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Bateaux #Bateau #Boot #Boote #Barco #Barco #HongKong #China #Lantau #DragonBoat #DragonBoats #Sport #Sports #WaterSport #WaterSports

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

Sea Fog

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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #CamelCase #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Seascape #Monochrome #Landscape #BlackAndWhitePhotography #LandscapePhotography #Ferries #Bateaux #Bateau #Navire #Navires #US #USA #California #NorCal #SF #SFBA #Fog #Mist #Weather #AdverseWeather #GoldenGate #GoldenGateBridge #Bridge

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/wednesday-july-29-2026/

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

Anchored

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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #CamelCase #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Seascape #Monochrome #Landscape #BlackAndWhitePhotography #LandscapePhotography #Ferries #Bateaux #Bateau #Navire #Navires #US #USA #California #SoCal #Catalina #SantaCatalina #Avalon #Anchor #Anchored

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

In Norway, It's Hard To Go Far Without Travelling On A Ferry

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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #Norway #Norge #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #CamelCase #Ferry #Nordic #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Seascape #Monochrome #Landscape #BlackAndWhitePhotography #LandscapePhotography #Ferry #Ferries #Bateaux #Bateau #Navire #Navires #Trondheim #Trondheimsfjorden

Thursday, July 16, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/thursday-july-16-2026/

#MeerMittwoch #SeaWednesday

The San Pedro Channel

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#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photo #Photography #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #Sea #Ocean #TravelPhotography #Water #California #SoCal #US #USA #Pacific #LeftCoast #PacificOcean #CamelCase #Boat #Boats #Ferry #Ferries #SantaCatalina #Catalina #CatalinaExpress #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Nautical #Maritime #CatalinaIsland #FastFerry #SeaCat

Carmichael leads debate on #cuts to #coastguard payments

Whatever reasons behind it, the outcome could be catastrophic. A change in course must be found

#Shetland's MP secured parliamentary debate on plans to stop paying coastguard `#volunteers

The #Maritime & Coastguard Agency ( #MCA ) to remove ability for coastguard #rescue volunteers to claim around £11/hr for attending call-outs, training exercises.

https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2026/06/24/carmichael-lead-debate-cuts-coastguard/?utm_source=mastodon_fediverse

#CutsKill #austerity #safety

Shadow fleet digitale: Russia e Iran usano 36 siti contraffatti per sfuggire alle sanzioni marittime

https://insicurezzadigitale.com/shadow-fleet-digitale-russia-e-iran-usano-36-siti-contraffatti-per-sfuggire-alle-sanzioni-marittime/

Russian billionaire Alexey #Mordashov’s #superyacht passed through #StraitOfHormuz despite restrictions on traffic in waterway

#MarineTraffic & VesselFinder showed 142m yacht, #Nord, left #Dubai, crossed strait overnight on April 25 en route to #Oman

- Several other vessels crossed during same period, including 2 US sanctioned #tankers, 5 cargo ships & ferry

He is under #sanctions from the #US, #UK & European Union.

https://kyivindependent.com/sanctioned-russian-billionaires-yacht-passes-through-blockaded-strait-of-hormuz/

#maritime #wealthy #shipping #Iran #ComradeKrasnov

Strengthening Coastal Flood Forecasting Through Event-Based Data Capitalization - A Case Study From The December 2022 Storm Surge In Québec City
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-025-07780-5 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #hydrospatial #marine #maritime #sealevelrise #stormsurge #extremeweather #climatechange #coast #coastal #risk #hazard #erosion #innundation #flood #flooding #coastalmanagement #hydrodynamic #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #velocity #water #hydrology #infrastructure #cost #economics #damage #publicsafety #SaintLawrence #Quebec #QuebecCity #canada #Fluvial #Estuary #riskmanagement #historic #topography #bathmetry #urban #planning #urbanarea

Compendium Of Seabed Mapping Use Cases | HE Nippon Foundation - Gebco #Seabed2030 Project
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https://seabed2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SEABED-2030-Compendium-of-Seabed-Mapping-Use-Cases-031024.pdf <-- shared presentation
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #spatialanalysis #oceanfloor #seafloor #marine #ocean #global #usecase #cable #subsubseacable #planning #design #engineering #routing #risk #hazard #infrastructure #trench #slope #seamount #cost #costsavings #benefit #economics #usecase #seabed #opendata #platforms #sensors #survey #dataprocessing #management #publication #bigdata #acquisition #coverage #hydrospatial #hydrographic #coast #coastal #development #spatialplanning #maritime #socioeconomic #sovereignty #navigation #nauticial #charting #charts #marinecharts #depth #crowdsourcing #3D #basemap #tsunami #stormsurge #extremeweather #model #modeling #landfall #impact #humanimpact #propagation #climatechange #ocean #biodiversity #ecosystems #reef #bathymetry #government #policy #pollution #blueeconomy #industry #NGO #academia #research
@Seabed2030

Friday, July 11, 2025

What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv — Ukraine, UK pen deal for Thales air defense missile supply — The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead –Ukraine’s largest battery energy storage project enters final testing phase, set to power 600,000 homes … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/friday-july-11-2025/

Greta #Thunberg #kidnapped by Israel

#Israel cannot be allowed to routinely violate international law

Apply maximum pressure on Israel to allow immediate #humanitarian aid to #Gaza & release the #Madleen’s crew of volunteers, who were #detained #illegally on international waters."

In the early hours of this morning, the humanitarian #ship, the Madleen, was illegally #seized by Israeli forces on #international waters.

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/madleen_freedom_flotilla_1_1/

#WarCrimes #GretaThunberg #maritime #BoycottIsrael

Back in 2016, Ciara Phillips painted the Fingal in wartime "Dazzle" camouflage, as part of the 1914-1918 centenary commemorating the War to End All Wars - https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/27324051846/

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #ship #vessel #boat #bateau #DazzleCamouflage #WWI #FirstWorldWar #Fingal #PortOfLeith #maritime #Art

Les gens n’ont pas voulu entendre pendant des années qu’Emmanuel Macron était réactionnaire.
Macron dit à l’été 2016 : "De toutes manières, cette campagne se gagnera à droite."
Dans la revue Esprit, en 2011, il expliquait déjà que le néolibéralisme nécessite une pause démocratique. On a besoin de stabilité.

Macron "a un rapport à l’ordre qui est très droitier."
Bruno Roger-Petit et Macron sont fascinés par Roland Dumas et les barbouses.

#Regardez Marc Endeweld : https://www.auposte.fr/macronie-macronisme-marc-endeweld-au-rapport/

#FrançAfrique #oligarchie #extrêmeCentre #histoire #ÉtatFrançais #République #France #politiqueFR #macron #macronie #macronisme #AuPoste #Bolloré #droitisation #croyance #subjuguer #progressisme #manipulation #opinion #mentir #psychologie #triangulation #autoritarisme #havas #collusion #réputation #élite #lire #livre #armateurs #maritime #campagne #aileMadame #Endeweld #MSC #CMACGM #réseaux

Launching into a Safer Future: The FAA’s Roadmap for Commercial Human Spaceflight Oversight

#Accident #BlueOrigin #CommercialSpace #CommercialSpaceTransportation #FAA #Government #HumanSpaceflight #Manufacturing #Maritime #Research #RiskManagement #SpaceIndustry #SpaceTourism #SpaceTravel #Spaceflight #SpaceX #Standards #VirginGalactic #EarthAndOrbit #EditorSPicks #Emerging #IndustryReportsPapersAndEBooks #Launch #Moon #Noteworthy #PolicyLawAndRegulation #SocioEconomic #SpaceEconomy

https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2024/04/22/launching-into-a-safer-future-the-faas-roadmap-for-commercial-human-spaceflight-oversight/

Do I actually *need* a diving helmet?

#maritime #bricabrac

Sea Level Rise Drowned A Vast Habitable Area Of North-Western Australia Driving Long-Term Cultural Change
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108418 <-- shared paper
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[By modelling these geographic features, the team estimates that the region could have supported a population of between 50,000 and 500,000 people.]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #sealevelrise #demographics #remotesensing #climatechange #Pleistocene #Sahu #human #occupation #dispersal #archaeology #rockart #indigeneous #aborgines #firstnation #ancientpeoples #paleogeography #drownedlandscapes #Continentalshelf #Sealevelchange #bathymetry #topobathy #SLR #sealevel #sealevelrise #NewGuinea #PapuaNewGuinea #kimberley #arnhemland #NorthernAustralia #WesternAustralia #marine #ocean #innundation #model #modeling #archipelago
#australia #Wallacea #habitation #settlement #civilisation #maritime #economics #ancienthistory #sediment #sampling #geology #holocene

#Coastguard response times could quadruple under new plans

Controversial new proposal from #Bristow’s a private, profit motivated company Tories contracted to #privatize the service

Coastguard will have 60 min to launch after call is made

Currently they have 15 min during day, 45 min at night

This will risk lives

https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2023/10/06/coastguard-response-times-could-quadruple-under-new-plans

#ToryScum #CutsKill #Rescue #Shetland #Maritime #UK #greed #ToryDictatorship #Privatization #SearcjRescue #OilRigs #Ships #CruiseShips #PeopleNotProfits

The mining of the “Saucy” and the “Firefly”: the thread about the WW2 loss of forty-two lives in the Forth

I was looking for something in Seafield Cemetery last week and couldn’t help but stop by the war graves. Some are for merchant seamen and many of them were from HMS Saucy, lost with all hands on this day (September 4th) in 1940. As yesterday was Merchant Navy Day, this is a doubly appropriate time to relate their story.

The Saucy was built for the Royal Navy in Hull in 1918 as a 600-ton, 155ft-long Frisky-class rescue tug. She was sold out of service in 1924 but kept her name and was requisitioned in 1939, returning to the UK from Shanghai. She was crewed by merchant seamen, serving under officers of the Royal Navy Reserve (RNR men were professional merchant naval officers who had joined the reserves to be called up in times of war).

Saucy was based on the Forth at Rosyth, her duties to assist in any damaged vessels entering the estuary and was at sea on September 3rd (Merchant Navy Day and exactly 1 year into the war) when she brought in a damaged Dutch merchant ship that had been bombed by German aircraft. With this charge safely brought in, she headed back out on patrol in the early morning of the 4th. Contact was soon lost with her when she was in a position about 1.5 miles west of the island of Inchkeith; the unfortunate tug had hit a mine and gone down almost instantly, taking all 281 on board with her. It is not clear whose mine she had struck, it may have been dropped by a German aircraft, but just as likely it may have been a “friendly” mine that had broken free from its moorings and had floated further into the Firth.

Of the crew the 3 officers were all RNR men and the 25 ratings were all merchant seamen. Eighteen came from the Devonshire fishing town of Brixham, 7 from the same extended family. Eight bodies were recovered, 5 of them of Brixham men and all were buried at Seafield – although one was never formally identified.

On this day in 2004, a memorial plaque was dedicated in Brixham Harbour to the men who were lost – it has 26 individual names, however different sources list 27 names and some say there were 28 on the ship’s roll. See footnote.

A new HMS Saucy was named in her honour in 1942, an Assurance-class rescue tug. The wreck of her predecessor was marked with a buoy in 1940, but it was largely lost by 1945. Sonar surveys by the Navy in 1967 and 1871 failed to locate it, but it was found again by the minehunter HMS Sandown in 1992, and her divers explored the wreck in 1993 and found it to be remarkably intact in 15m of water, position 56° 2′ 10″N, 3° 10′ 33″W.

The men whose bodies were never found are further commemorated on the Liverpool Naval Memorial, which commemorates almost 1,400 merchant sailors who died serving with the Royal Navy during WW2 and have no known resting place.

1. Some sources say 26 or 27 were on the ship’s roll. Most also 7 seven men were buried at Seafield, however there is the grave of an 8th and unidentified victim also alongside. ↩︎

Alongside the men from the Saucy at Seafield lie three others who lost their lives to sea mines that year; Lt. D. B. Johnstone RNVR, Chief Petty Officer C. E. Baldwin RN D.S.M. and Sub Lt. C. Dobson RNVR. All three died on HMS Firefly in February 1940. Baldwin had earned the Distinguished Service Medal early in the war for being the first to defuse a German magnetic mine, allowing it to be captured, inspected and countermeasures devised.

Firefly was a requisitioned civilian trawler, hired from her owners as a minesweeper. Trawlers were perfect for this sort of work, which required a seaworthy vessel that could handle the towing of “sweeps” that cut mines free from their moorings before the crew destroyed them (usually by shooting it with a rifle until it exploded).

On February 3rd 1940, Firefly was in the Forth, her crew attempting to defuse a British mine that had gotten loose and was posing a hazard to shipping. These sort of mines look exactly like they do in cartoons; a buoyant, black sphere with spiky “horns” in which the detonators are mounted.

Firefly was stopped in the water, her crew watching from the railings while a detachment in the row boat carefully manoeuvred alongside the mine to defuse it; dangerous but routine work. Without warning they were hit by the wake of a passing destroyer, which pushed the mine onto the boat. The horn contacted one of the boat’s oars, and 200-250lb of explosives was detonated. Everyone on the boat was killed instantly, as were all except one watching on deck (who would die the next day from his wounds). Only the 3 men in the wheelhouse and 1 in the galley survived from a crew of 18. Sadly one of the four survivors, Lt. Andrew Macgavin Maclean RNVR, would die in the Royal Infirmary two weeks later as a result of infection, he was laid to rest in Strathblane Parish Churchyard (I am indebted to Pat Davy of Strathblane Heritage Society for this information).

Remarkably, the vessel herself was largely intact – apart from damage to her superstructure – and she was towed into Leith by the minesweeping trawler HMS Wardour and repaired. She returned to service, recommissioning in June 1940, and serving out the rest of the war. Returned to her owners and renamed St. Just, she fished out of Harwich until 1961. Wardour herself was sunk by a mine she was clearing in October 1940 but her crew survived. In a curious coincidence, a previous HMS Firefly was one of the first ships to strike a naval mine (which at the time were referred to as “Infernal Machines”) when she and HMS Merlin ran into a Russian minefield off Sveaborg in the Baltic Campaign of 1855, although both survived. In another odd twist of fate, the Firth of Forth was the location of both the first loss of a ship to a torpedo in WW1 (the cruiser HMS Pathfinder), and the last such in WW2 (the Canadian steamer Avondale Park and the Norwegian collier “Sneland I).

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‘We’re Changing The Clouds.’ - An Unintended Test Of Geoengineering Is Fueling Record Ocean Warmth
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https://www.science.org/content/article/changing-clouds-unforeseen-test-geoengineering-fueling-record-ocean-warmth <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-8259-2023 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abn7988 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #pollution #emissions #sulfur #shiptracks #sulfate #particles #shipping #regulations #cargoshipping #model #modeling #climatechange #geoengineering #climatemodels #clouds #cloudformation #humanimpacts #impacts #remotesensing #imagery #AI #machinelearning #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #covid #airquality #maritime #maritimetransport #ocean #oceantemperature #temperature

🚢📦My personal API, https://api.facha.dev, now offers AIS Ship Tracking (by MMSI & radius of a location) and Package/Parcel Tracking, alongside existing endpoints like Temporary email detection, IP geolocation, Aircraft registration, and Live aircraft tracking. 🛳️✉️🗺️🛩️

#API #Developers #TechUpdate #Tracking #Shipping #Geolocation #Aviation #Innovation #Maritime #Logistics #ShipTracking #PackageTracking #AircraftTracking #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #Programming #OpenSource #Tools #TechCommunity #Enhancements #Updates #DeveloperTools

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