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These ships, typically oil tankers such as the one Ivan is stuck on, are more often ageing vessels of obscure ownership, unseaworthy, likely uninsured, and operationally hazardous. And they typically sail under flags of convenience or FOCs – the ships are registered in countries with very limited regulatory oversight.

Moore, 20, said that although nursing students were provided with four uniforms, they were advised not to travel to their placement in uniform, so had to wash a white tunic and navy trousers for every shift, as well as the clothes they wore on their commute.

Hundreds and hundreds of ships. But they’re all in the wrong place. “Oh my goodness,” says Michelle Wiese Bockmann, senior maritime intelligence analyst at Windward, a maritime AI company, as she checks the live positions broadcast by commercial vessels in waters off Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.