Iran has issued formal notice of the transit routes for approved ships to enter and exit the Strait of Hormuz

Posted by DasistMamba

35 Comments

  1. Bahaha of course they would mine Oman’s side of the strait and tell people to go through their side only

  2. DerPanzerknacker on

    ‘Formal notice’ sounds nicer than extortion. But forcing people to pay you so that you don’t commit violent crimes against them sure sounds like extortion.

  3. Balls_of_satan on

    Tha lane going towards the right on the map says both in and out of the Persian Gulf…

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    Soon Americans will be sick and tired of so much winning! /s

    Fuck this administration

  5. stars_mcdazzler on

    Don’t forget to thank the US president for all the hard work he did to get this. Gosh I’m just so overwhelmed with all this winning.

  6. As a mariner I’d like to point out, this is not a map. It is a chart.
    This is both somewhat semantics and a fun fact.

    Charts are not maps 😉

  7. ZookeepergameFit967 on

    I mean that has always been the case, these two routes are the official sea lines that every sailor for the past few hundreds of years have taken. This chart has been used for centuries and OP just posted it as if its something new or related to current events. There wouldn’t have been a crisis if the red area wasn’t hazardous

  8. Isn’t this mostly the normalish route anyway. The water near oman has never been used for large ship traffic because of the depth and tides? feels closer to Iran than my memory but not that different.

  9. And there’s nothing at all inherently dangerous about routing massive tankers through a very narrow gap is there?

  10. veerKg_CSS_Geologist on

    I didn’t know the strait was so shallow. Barely 60 to 80 meters at most points. No wonder warships don’t want to operate there.

  11. absolutedisaster09 on

    “Danger Area Coordinates” just sounds really cool for some reason 

  12. GrandeSupposta on

    Che vadano a cagare tutti. Sia da una parte che l’altra parte. Avrei io una bella cura medioevale per entrambi gli stati.