The Icelandic Coast Guard and a team of police special forces boarded the vessel Bandero operated by the Captain Paul Watson Foundation and arrested the captain. They took control of the vessel, which was accused of disobeying instructions as they were pursuing a whaling vessel.

This sounds like a nightmare situation, getting stuck in a place like that 😳 “Whistleblowers who worked for the Blue Ribbon Healthcare Group told ITV News Investigations Editor Daniel Hewitt residents were seriously neglected and left in filthy conditions” Link below 👇

Ukrainian officials reported that for the 1st time since 2023, there is no traffic on its Black Sea shipping corridor Shippers reportedly made the decision based on the increased attacks & deaths of seafarers since Russia & Ukraine escalated the attacks on shipping this summer.

On July 19, Yemen’s Houthi rebel movement declared a “maritime embargo” against Saudi Arabia. The Houthis stated that the blockade was a direct retaliation for Saudi Arabia's long-running restrictions on Yemen and a recent alleged attack on the Sanaa International Airport

Another tanker appears to have been attacked in the strait of Hormuz, this time off the eastern coast of the Musandam Peninsula.  At about 2010 hours UTC on Monday, multiple third parties reported receiving a VHF Channel 16 distress call from a tanker in the strait.

One thing I’ve noticed about the new format that @X has done is that now the “for you” and “following” feeds do the same thing. On the “for you” feed I used to get subjects I’d looked at, but from accounts I didn’t follow, now it’s all accounts I do follow… 🤔