Seeking to reassure jittery global markets and several oil tankers currently reversing course at full speed, the Defense Department announced Thursday that Iranian mines scattered throughout the Strait of Hormuz are “clearly marked” by helpful indicators including floating debris, columns of fire, and the occasional secondary explosion.
According to defense officials, the debris field created by earlier explosions has effectively formed a “natural warning system,” guiding ships away from the most dangerous portions of the strait.
“In many ways, the system is self-organizing,” the spokesperson explained.
Is that thumbnail AI or is that how narrow the strait is?
The strait is 24mi wide at the narrowest part. Unless those ships are 10mi long, I’ll go with AI.
1000% AI
The port in the background, when looking across the strait, would be Shahid Bahonar.
It has two curved stone jetties creating a bay, not a single concrete dock:
All of the ports in the area use the same design, dredged sand covered with stone. I couldn’t find a single concrete dock outside of one of these artificial bays.
Those are the biggest ships on the planet one is around 20 miles long.
You can see by the scale at the bottom of this image that the straight is roughly 80 miles wide.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Strait_of_hormuz_full.jpg
Yes, its just the tankers are massive then. Also the angle is interesting and adds to the “illusion”. Maybe its just my brain tho :)
I measured 65 km there.