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How do you search for ships at sea?
It's not all about looking at MarineTraffic and AIS signals. There's a lot to know about finding ships on the big, wide ocean and in narrow shipping straits.
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Excellent explanation of these issues. BTW Hormuz Strait is about 28Nm wide at narrowest point. So Iran can't see ships passing close to UAE.
I was just advising Barefoot Doctors with a new catamaran stuck in Dubai that if they sailed in shallow water very close to UAE coast as a shallow draft aluminium electric catamaran can do, they had very low risk of Iranian fire or mines (which are magnetically activated and normally in deep sea lanes to stop ships.
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There's no way Iran can see or hit small sailing ships in the southern coastal clutter. They could take down their radar reflector if they have one and really wanted.
I should have double checked the width but it doesn't really change that much. Depending on the weather you can probably see most of the significant traffic if you've got something tall enough to stand on. But it's not easy just looking.
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