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Life at Sea - ships and crews

@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.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001450236062
TypeChannel
Username@shipsandsailors
CreatedBetween 1 April 2019 and 31 October 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded7 August 2026
Last confirmed live18 September 2026
Measurements held11
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 18 September 2026
On Telegramt.me/shipsandsailors

Topic

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.

Growth

2,0822,0962,0897 August 2026 — 2,086 subscribers7 August 2026 — 2,086 subscribers10 August 2026 — 2,082 subscribers16 August 2026 — 2,083 subscribers20 August 2026 — 2,085 subscribers23 August 2026 — 2,092 subscribers26 August 2026 — 2,094 subscribers1 September 2026 — 2,096 subscribers10 September 2026 — 2,093 subscribers14 September 2026 — 2,094 subscribers18 September 2026 — 2,088 subscribers2,0887 August 202618 September 2026
11 measurements spanning 42 days, net +2. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 2,080–2,098 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
18 Sept 2026, 09:212,088-6
14 Sept 2026, 10:402,094+1
10 Sept 2026, 11:572,093-3
1 Sept 2026, 21:272,096+2
26 Aug 2026, 18:432,094+2
23 Aug 2026, 13:082,092+7
20 Aug 2026, 02:362,085+2
16 Aug 2026, 18:282,083+1
10 Aug 2026, 11:012,082-4
7 Aug 2026, 06:312,086no change
7 Aug 2026, 06:202,086first reading

Engagement

18 posts held, back to 27 May 2026the 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.

What this channel posts

Video runtime
5m 40s
Average length
57s

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.

Reaction mix

10 reactions across 8 posts, in 3 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 80.0% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
880.0%
👍110.0%
💩110.0%

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.

Recent posts

15 Jul 2026, 12:29 UTC366 views3 reactionsread 7 August 2026
Forwarded from @SeafarersLensPhoto

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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11 Jul 2026, 12:15 UTC494 views1 reactionsread 7 August 2026
Forwarded from @SeafarersLensVideo

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

💩1

4 Jul 2026, 06:30 UTC555 views1 reactionsread 7 August 2026
Forwarded from @SeafarersLensPhoto

Life at sea is not always beautiful, but sometimes it becomes unforgettable.

1

1 Jul 2026, 21:10 UTC527 viewsread 7 August 2026
Forwarded from @SeafarersLensVideo

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.

28 Jun 2026, 02:44 UTC508 views1 reactionsread 7 August 2026
Forwarded from @SeafarersLensPhoto

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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27 Jun 2026, 07:58 UTC384 viewsread 7 August 2026
Forwarded from @SeafarersLensVideo

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.

25 Jun 2026, 13:43 UTC393 viewsread 7 August 2026
Forwarded from @SeafarersLensPhoto

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/

24 Jun 2026, 09:41 UTC375 viewsread 7 August 2026
Forwarded from @SeafarersLensVideo

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/

22 Jun 2026, 12:06 UTC384 views1 reactionsread 7 August 2026
Forwarded from @SeafarersLens

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/

1

20 Jun 2026, 10:20 UTC347 viewsread 7 August 2026
Forwarded from @SeafarersLens

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

18 Jun 2026, 15:43 UTC379 views1 reactionsread 7 August 2026
Forwarded from @SeafarersLensVideo

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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16 Jun 2026, 02:27 UTC407 views1 reactionsread 7 August 2026
Forwarded from @SeafarersLens

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.

Forward network

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.

Cite this entry

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.