Will enter Iceland EEZ in 5 hours.

Marinera (aka Bella 1) entered Sentinel-1 coverage south of Iceland an hour ago. Reflection, starboard side, approximately 2 NM behind. Size approx 130 meters.

False flagged SUN entering the Baltic #101

False flagged ETHERA leaving the Baltic #100

Another fiber optic cable has been damaged in the Baltic Sea, near Liepāja, the Latvian PM writes on the hellsite: x.com/EvikaSilina/...

QENDIL beached in Turkey

Another "Marinegov" domain present in IMO databases. This time Syria seems to be targeted. Domain was seized by the US by OFAC in April 2013, left to expire in 2017. Re-registered by the Bangladesh based "Marinegov" group in September 2025. The domain is not actively masquerading as Syria.

Benin -> Madagascar Sounds sketchy.

💯 🎉 💯 🎉 💯 🎉 💯 🎉 💯 🎉 First false flagged vessel transitting the Baltic in 2026! And: Taa-daaa transit number 100 after NB8++ statement that false flagged vessels do not enjoy rights of innocent passage. 💯 🎉 💯 🎉 💯 🎉 💯 🎉 💯 🎉

Two marine cable repair vessels en route to the Gulf of Finland - both active in repairs after the cable break epidemic last winter.

It is almost like the FIFA prize had no real meaning.

Could WARRIOR SPIRIT be the first false flagged vessel of the year in the Danish Straits?

Odd behaviour of sketchy "ECHO" - is she in trouble in the strong winds and waves? 🔥 sketchy.boats/9276030

#Palau terminates shady #ShipRegistry operator International Shipping Bureau Management Ltd. (IML) #InternationalShippingBureauManagement #IML #IslandTimes islandtimes.org/palau-termin...

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The runaway tanker BELLA 1 has officially rebranded as MARINERA in Russia’s shipping registry. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...

How long time does it take to raise the chain? Suspicious timeline: 05:58Z Border guard helicopter warms up and turns on ADS-B 06:04Z Helicopter on runway 06:06Z FITBURG accelerates 06:06Z Helicopter airborne 06:08Z FITBURG completed speed increase by 10% ... 06:34Z Helicopter spots anchor out

Estonian gov: Five undersea cables disrupted during the last few days, including two individual cables this morning (likely Finland-Estonia 2 and FEC)

www.gmx.net/magazine/pol... FYI @seemannsmission.org @konflikt-sicher.bsky.social

Cable break in the GoF, thread: Vessel under suspicion is FITBURG (IMO: 9250397) under St Vincent Grenadines flag. It is a small cargo ship.

False flagged 'BLUE' leaving the Baltic. 🔥 sketchy.boats/9236353

As a part of a small Christmas project, I analysed tankers (length > 190 m) leaving the Baltic in laden condition (min 12 m draught, delta min 4 m change). Crossing points were the two bridges: Storebælt and Øresund. This is based of AIS data available free of charge at aisdata.ais.dk

As predicted. Surprised it took so long…

Still some Coastguard activity seen near the entrance to Langelands Bælt. Sentinel 1 shows one AIS shy vessel this morning. browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu?zoom=16&lat=...

I love getting emails that are RELEASABLE TO INTERNET TRANSMISSION… somehow feels like a 1990ies policy that turned into a cargo cult.

Why Russia’s Shadow Fleet Sails Unhindered | "Russia is developing a steadily more aggressive shadow war campaign against Baltic Sea countries, but there’s been little response." Meelis Oidsalu https://cepa.org/article/why-russias-shadow-fleet-sails-unhindered/

🔺Baltic Sea activity Danish Navy OPV P523 likely conducted daylight close surveillance I&W mission against Russian Navy Pr.1155 Udaloy class BPK-619 “Severomorsk” 21 December 2024. ⚠️ Realistic possibility BPK-619 relocating via Great Belt to observe “Ascalon” incident in north Øresund.

News breaking that BELLA 1 was seized by US. Incorrect reports that vessel is under Panama flag. Got kicked out of Panama years ago. Has been false flagged since. sketchy.boats/9230880

Crude oil tanker BELLA 1 (IMO 9230880), under US OFAC sanctions, has been transmitting repeated HF DSC distress alerts (All Ships) for ~2 hours near 18N 58W. Multiple distress relays by nearby vessels and MRCCs. Situation appears ongoing. #Distress #Bella1

🇺🇸🇻🇪 The US has seized a third tanker off the coast of Venezuela, - Bloomberg. Panamanian-flagged tanker Bella 1 was en route to Venezuela to load oil. Tanker Centuries was previously seized on Saturday morning and tanker Skipper on December 10.

Prediction, less in than 24 hours, GAS PACIFIC will spoof her position near an anchorage in the GOF and continue to Ust-Luga. Watch which ground station is reporting her position.

Currently processing all DK AIS data since 2006. If you are curious, that is on the order of 50-100 billion position reports and about 3.5 TB of disk space 🤯

Increased patrol activity in the Bay of Mecklenburg since the 19th. On the 18th a 160ish meter AIS shy vessel was hanging out in this area, according to Sentinel 1. Udaloy?

🚨🇷🇺🇫🇷 According to a new CNN investigation, two Russian mercenaries were on board the BORACAY (IMO 9332810) during its boarding off the French coast. 🧵

False Gambia-flagged 'MAGNUS' leaving the Baltic 🔥 sketchy.boats/9247443

Heads up if you are using MarineTraffic. Nice to see that they *finally* enabled the Timor Leste MMSIs. But that is not the ISO 3166 alpha-2 code nor flag of Timor Leste 😂 LT = Lithuania TL = Timor Leste

I guess that KIRA K, IMO 9346720, should be considered false flagged? sketchy.boats/9346720

False flagged TAGOR having second thoughts about visiting the Baltic?

False flagged “BLUE” entering the Baltic

False flagged CHARIOT TIDE limping into the Baltic. At anchor in the North Sea for a week. Did it really take so long to paint her new name and home port - from one false identity to another?

Its been happening for so long, that we just shrug when tankers are going the scenic route and avoiding the Channel. But I would really like to know why. It is an extremely costly detour. I expect this to be UK saying something to the tankers. Did they say something someone overheard on VHF 16?

False flagged MANASLU entering the Baltic sketchy.boats/9388027

The Danish government is using the upcoming Christmas break to slip through a public consultation for a draft law that would make it an OFFENCE to use a #VPN to access content that would otherwise not be available in Denmark, or to circumvent the blocking of […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

WATCH: U.S. forces seize oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela

🚨 Zombie-ship just passed through Danish waters. The ship ARCUSAT (IMO 1095337) does not exist in the IMO GISIS database. It is a purely fictional ID. Covered by Lloyds List here: www.lloydslist.com/LL1155512/Fr...

Bloomberg's article that broke the tanker news said it was an unflagged vessel (which would be legal to interdict AFAIK). NYT is adding some detail. It reportedly has a false flag (in the maritime sense).

Seized tanker⬇️ The Skipper (IMO 9304667), flying Guyana's flag, is registered to Triton Navigation Corp., a Marshall Islands-based entity. The tanker faced US sanctions for alleged Iranian oil trading under Ukrainian national Viktor Artemov's network

Akademik Boris Petrov seems to have completed their one week "research trip" near the Kingisepp-Kaliningrad ("Baltika") fiber optic cable. Some "research" within 2 NM of 700 MW HVDC cable NordBalt (routing of NordBalt might not be super accurate in OpenStreetMap/OpenInfrastructureMap)

DASHAN hit in the Black Sea. News reports state flag is Comoros. Not correct. AIS flag was The Gambia. The ship was not kicked out of the registry, according list circulated by the Gambia Maritime Authority = never registered in first place. Transom: BANJUL -> Gambia 🔥 sketchy.boats/9299666