900 nm from Tropical Storm Bavi. Drifting in the open ocean and waiting for it to pass. A real bridge view, far beyond the satellite image.
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Channel
@shipsandsailors
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
2,088subscribers
+2 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
| Telegram ID | -1001450236062 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @shipsandsailors |
| Created | Between 1 April 2019 and 31 October 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 18 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 11 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 18 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/shipsandsailors |
Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 16 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 88% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Sept 2026, 09:21 | 2,088 | -6 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 10:40 | 2,094 | +1 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 11:57 | 2,093 | -3 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 21:27 | 2,096 | +2 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 18:43 | 2,094 | +2 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 13:08 | 2,092 | +7 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 02:36 | 2,085 | +2 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 18:28 | 2,083 | +1 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 11:01 | 2,082 | -4 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 06:31 | 2,086 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 06:20 | 2,086 | first reading |
18 posts held, back to 27 May 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 2 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 18 posts for this entry, the most recent from 15 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Measured directly from 6 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
10 reactions across 8 posts, in 3 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 80.0% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 8 | 80.0% | |
| 👍 | 1 | 10.0% | |
| 💩 | 1 | 10.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 9 of the 18 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 10 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 18 most recent posts we hold, published 27 May 2026 to 15 July 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
900 nm from Tropical Storm Bavi. Drifting in the open ocean and waiting for it to pass. A real bridge view, far beyond the satellite image.
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Master’s NoteSTS approach always looks like the difficult part.But in similar-size VLCC operations, the quieter risk may begin after the vessels are already all fast… when draft, freeboard, mooring leads, fender loading and hose geometry keep changing.Foot https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/07/06/similar-size-vlcc-sts-the-risk-after-all-fast
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Life at sea is not always beautiful, but sometimes it becomes unforgettable.
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Same anchorage does not always mean the same hull story. One ship may report slime. Another may report barnacles. The real question is what the hull has already been through. Full analysis: https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/06/29/slime-or-barnacles-why-ships-foul-differently-in-hormuz/ AI-generated visual explainer. Some visuals may be symbolic. Read the written article for factual analysis.
DeepDraft Weekly Maritime Brief | June 28, 2026 Hormuz remains open, but commercial passage is no longer normal. This week’s brief tracks the IMO evacuation framework, the EVER LOVELY strike, reduced tanker movement, Ras Tanura restart signals, and the growing link between sanctions enforcement and Master-level record exposure. Full Weekly Brief: https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/06/28/hormuz-exit-control-master-sanct…
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Full written analysis: https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/06/22/the-shadow-fleets-human-firewall/ The shadow fleet is not only a sanctions story. There is a Master and crew-risk side to it.
I wrote this in 2018. Back then, GPS spoofing looked like a technical warning. Today, it looks like a bridge reality. When the position display lies, does the bridge team still know how to navigate? Full article: https://thedeepdraft.com/2018/02/09/gps-spoofing/
The shadow fleet is not only about ships, flags and sanctions. There is a crew-risk side to this story. Full analysis: https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/06/22/the-shadow-fleets-human-firewall/
The Shadow Fleet’s Human Firewall Master’s note: The shadow fleet is not only a sanctions or flag problem. The commercial chain is built ashore, but the person physically exposed is often the Master onboard. That gap is now becoming dangerous for civilian seafarers. Read the full analysis: https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/06/22/the-shadow-fleets-human-firewall/
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Audio briefing: Settebello, seafarer recruitment, war-risk trades and the question of force against a merchant ship. For those who prefer listening over reading, the DeepDraft technical briefing is now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1V9mXh61IbbgRKRpEyHVBJ?si=26_qwZ9dRoa6Onh9qNt2gw
Visual recap: a signed waiver may close the file, but it does not remove the risk carried by the seafarer. Full DeepDraft analysis: https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/06/15/settebello-was-not-sacrifice-it-was-a-recruitment-failure/
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Settebello Was Not Sacrifice. It Was a Recruitment Failure. The Settebello case raises a harder question than contract signing. How are civilian seafarers being moved into sanctions-sensitive, blockade-exposed trades where the paperwork may be complete, but the operational protection is thin? This DeepDraft analysis looks at the gap between waiver, recruitment, risk disclosure and the moment the seafarer finally re…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 18 posts we hold for @shipsandsailors. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Republishes
Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 18 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Life at Sea - ships and crews” (@shipsandsailors), 2,088 subscribers as measured 18 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/shipsandsailors.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.