Trump let ships sit in the Strait of Hormuz for months. They now might be ‘superspreaders’
- The closure of the Strait of Hormuz at the start of President Donald Trump’s war with Iran may lead to a “large-scale, marine bioinvasion ‘superspreader’ event,” according to a new study.
- More than 1,500 commercial vessels have been stranded in the Gulf since the key waterway closed at the start of the war on February 28.
- In that time, the ships have sat submerged in the same waters, likely leaving them now coated with marine microbes, algae and invertebrates, according to scientists at the University of Maryland and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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- The closure of the Strait of Hormuz at the start of President Donald Trump’s war with Iran may lead to a “large-scale, marine bioinvasion ‘superspreader’ event,” according to a new study.
- More than 1,500 commercial vessels have been stranded in the Gulf since the key waterway closed at the start of the war on February 28.
- In that time, the ships have sat submerged in the same waters, likely leaving them now coated with marine microbes, algae and invertebrates, according to scientists at the University of Maryland and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Sources: The Independent