🚨Recent satellite imagery suggests that the Department of War has conducted a covert dredging operation to open up a never-before-used shipping corridor through the Omani side of the Strait of Hormuz. The corridor in question is an approximately 1,600-foot-wide waterway with a natural depth of about 93 feet, meaning that only a small amount of dredging would have been necessary to make it safe for VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers). Worth noting, ships navigating this corridor remain completely outside the Iranian regime’s line of sight due to the Omani island of Jazirat Musandam and the curvature of the Earth. Follow: @MorseReport

Aug 28, 2026 · 5:07 PM UTC

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Roman Helmet Guy
@romanhelmetguy
Mar 20
The Romans would’ve just dug another strait.
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Who up dredging they strait
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Holy shit the US Military is absolutely incredible 😂 THEY BUILT THEIR OWN FREAKING STRAIT!!!!!!!! 😂😂😂 Man whatever you think about the war in Iran you can’t help but love how freaking badass the US military is, holy smokes.
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Strait of America
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Bruh USA can literally move mountains
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It's shocking what can be accomplished when there's no red tape. The President just says, "Do it," and it's done. The endless layers of bureaucracy stateside prevent meaningful progress toward much of anything.
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Anyone stupid enough to 1) believe this happened and 2) think Iran couldn't hit ships using that corridor needs to log-off. Here is the incident map, corridor noted with arrow.
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I expanded the map to give viewers a better idea where the new Strait of America is located in relation to the now irrelevant Hormuz
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Trump on his Ceaser shit
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We do a little dredging...
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False.
The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetter
Aug 29
This is false. Morse Report claims recent satellite imagery shows the Department of War covertly dredged a never-before-used 1,600-ft VLCC corridor on the Omani side of Hormuz, hidden from Iran behind Jazirat Musandam. That gap is Bab Musandam / Fakk al Asad, the narrowest point of the strait on the Omani side. It has been charted for decades and transited by tankers long before this war. Optical imagery cannot see the seabed at 28.5 m, and his own bathymetry panel shows that depth is natural. A laden VLCC draws about 22 m. There was nothing to dredge. It is also not outside Iranian line of sight. Iran has been hitting ships in and around that channel for months. There is a southern Omani corridor. It is old, known, and under fire. It is not a secret dredging op.
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Gosh where did I hear this before
Latinx Adjacent Doctor PhD
@TonerousHyus
Aug 27
There’s some evidence from recent satellite photos of Oman that the U.S. has dredged out a path for tankers shown here and if so there’s no wonder Iran can’t see or target anything
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United Straits
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Don’t you just love the wins Trump and CENTCOM have been giving us, they even got rid of the Sea Mines that Iran had placed in the shipping lanes around the Straits 👊🏼🇺🇸
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Haha so Oman has been double dealing Iran negotiating a Strait of Hormuz deal while allowing a new strait to get dredged through their territory lmao
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seems a bit far fetched based on a slightly zoomed out picture
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Incredible
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This doesn't work. The red-circle route is at the northern tip of Musandam, still extending too far into the strait for real benefit. A true bypass would be farther south, near Khawr ash Shamm (green circle) and could be built in 2-4 years. Ideally two of them for redundance.
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Marco has been busy
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What a terrible map illustration. It makes no sense at all
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Why when we own the strait completely and freely? No?
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If true, this is awesome
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Uhmmm that has always been there? Go look at the map.
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@grok is this true?
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Dredging or marking a really narrow pre-existing channel? It is only a thousand feet between the islands.
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Geography is destiny.
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Big test for flat earthers
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Feels like Iran is losing their leverage. Dredging our own strait is pretty genius
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This is a purely invented story with virtually no substance to support it. The images do not demonstrate dredging, and the stated natural depth makes dredging appear unnecessary. The claim that the passage has never previously been used is also untrue – historical navigation records show that the route was recognised and used decades ago. And then there are other problems: the flawed “line of sight” assertion; treating the gap between landmasses as the width of a navigable channel; and ignoring that Iran and Oman are already publicly discussing an alternative route.
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Grok This is speculation based on a misreading of existing geography, not evidence of a covert U.S. dredging op. Analysts reviewing the same imagery (inc. a 28 Aug VIIRS pass) found no engineering signature, no disturbance, and no new channel. The feature matches pre-existing charts.
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This is all just a guess. There are literally no facts here.
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Dominant Global Superpower type shit
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