GulfSentinel has been decommissioned. After tracking tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, watching chokepoints flicker from elevated to critical and back again, and logging more force majeure declarations than anyone should have to read — it's time to set a course for other horizons.
Every ship tracked, every pipeline flagged, every 3am crawler run that found something genuinely alarming — it was worth it. The final frontier of energy geopolitics turned out to be less about warp drives and more about who controls the 21-mile gap between Oman and Iran.
And to everyone who bookmarked the RSS feed, checked the chokepoint risk widget before markets opened, or just found this corner of the internet by accident —
So long, and thanks for all the fish. 🐟
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