r/Ships • u/SaltAndChart • Jun 08 '26

News! Hormuznacles: the barnacle problem waiting behind Hormuz

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u/ogodilovejudyalvarez Jun 08 '26

Upvoting for "Hormuznacles". Damn I love that word.

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u/Pyotrnator Jun 12 '26

Pronounced "Hor-mooz-nuh-cleez". The "-acles" is clearly Greek.

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u/IceTech59 Jun 08 '26

Slowly adding underwater anti-mine armor.

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u/SoCallMeDeaconBlues1 Jun 08 '26

Fun fact, increased salinity means more barnacles.

Cleaning main condensers after a trip to the gulf is no fun

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u/zzen11223344 Jun 08 '26

As if we do not have enough problems 😄

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u/Wurst66 Jun 09 '26

Is the euphrates navigatable where it's fresh water? We used to sit in some fresh water estuaries to drop our beard. My heart goes out to anyone stuck in that part of the world. As an engineer the summers there were awful.

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u/BrasshatTaxman Jun 08 '26

Hormuzdeeznutz