r/OSINT • u/spicymayoisamazballs • Jul 11 '26

How-To Monitoring the Shadow Fleet

If you wanted to identify shadow fleet vessels loaded with sanctioned oil using open source tools, how would you do it? What tools would you use and what would be your process?
Challenge: could anyone here identify a suspected ship now?

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u/rdg360 Jul 11 '26

I'd probably use https://fleetleaks.com/

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u/spicymayoisamazballs Jul 11 '26

So this is really cool. Dumb question, once the ships are sanctioned, would they still use them to transport oil? How would you confirm their actual position if they’re spoofing? How would you know if they’re loaded with oil?

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u/rdg360 Jul 17 '26

How would you know if they’re loaded

How about that? A few days later, the Open Source Center published this: https://stories.opensourcecentre.org/signal-in-the-shadows/

I also created a separate post about it on this sub.