The Little-Known Environmental Risk that Could Emerge as Ships Leave the Strait of Hormuz

Idle ships could unleash ocean 'super-spreader event'

Stalled commercial ship traffic near the Strait of Hormuz is not only a threat to oil markets and global economies. Scientists warn that the idling vessels could unleash an invasive marine "super-spreader event" when trade resumes.

Idle ships could unleash marine 'super-spreader event'

Stalled commercial ship traffic near the Strait of Hormuz is not only a threat to oil markets and global economies. Scientists warn that the idling vessels could unleash an invasive marine "super-spreader event" when trade resumes.

The little-known environmental risk that could emerge as ships leave the Strait of Hormuz

The accrual of biofouling species on the hulls of ships anchored in the Strait of Hormuz could be the world's next biosecurity problem.

“Closure of the Strait of Hormuz may trigger a bioinvasion super‑spreader event"  IMO, we may be toast - All Our Yesterdays

Tl;dr: academic article about the microbial swingers’ event in the Strait of Hormuz is terrifying stuff. There’s an Open Access academic article, only 8 pages long, published two weeks, about what happens when all those ships, currently stuck by the Strait of Hormuz closure, get out and about, with new bugs. Fun times. (I came to it via this important read by Charlie Angus) I remember, in 1991 I think, reading people warning about how the fires …