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@SeafarersLens
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249subscribers
+3 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1003117070532 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @SeafarersLens |
| Created | Between 1 September 2025 and 30 November 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 14 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 14 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/SeafarersLens |
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 23 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 69% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Sept 2026, 11:37 | 249 | +2 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 20:55 | 247 | -2 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 07:56 | 249 | +1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 06:21 | 248 | +2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 06:47 | 246 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 06:31 | 246 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 13 July 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 1 page 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 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
2 reactions across 2 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 50.0% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 1 | 50.0% | |
| 👍 | 1 | 50.0% |
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 2 of the 20 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 2 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 13 July 2026 to 7 August 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.
Bonding and electrical isolation are often confused during tanker transfers. This short carousel explains what must be bonded, where isolation is required, and what can bypass it. https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/08/03/bonding-is-not-insulation-cargo-transfer-checklist/
During a recent call at Sungai Linggi, I saw several older LNG carriers lying in laid-up condition. That sight brought me back to an earlier DeepDraft article on LNG, methane slip and the gap between cleaner machinery and the fuel’s full climate account. The ships are becoming more efficient. The questions around upstream leakage, liquefaction energy and engine-specific methane slip remain. I have now updated the …
“The bonding cable is connected” does not confirm that electrical isolation has been maintained. This short explains the difference. https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/08/03/bonding-is-not-insulation-cargo-transfer-checklist/ AI-generated visual explainer.
“The bonding cable is connected.” That answer may sound correct, but it does not confirm electrical isolation. During tanker cargo transfer, bonding is required within each ship, while isolation must be maintained between the ships. https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/08/03/bonding-is-not-insulation-cargo-transfer-checklist/
The figures are easy to list. Explaining why each one is different is harder. This carousel traces SDMBL, LDBF, WLL and winch brake setting back to the ship’s design basis. Full article: https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/07/27/meg-4-mooring-numbers-why-ships-are-still-getting-confused/ #MEG4 #MooringSafety #ShipOperations
ARCHIVE DAY | WHEN SHIPPING TURNS GREY Shadow-fleet risk is no longer only about sanctioned vessels and opaque ownership. When flag status, insurance, AIS history, or commercial control become unclear, the exposure moves directly to the Master, crew, and ship manager. The companies behind the trade may disappear behind layers of ownership. The vessel and those onboard remain available to authorities, investigators…
“Sixty percent” was once simple onboard. MEG4 made the reference clearer, but the old language remains, and that is where four mooring figures still get mixed up. https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/07/27/meg-4-mooring-numbers-why-ships-are-still-getting-confused/ AI-generated visual explainer based on the original DeepDraft article.
Even after years of MEG4, I still see SDMBL, LDBF, WLL and winch brake setting being treated as interchangeable onboard. They are connected, but each has a different purpose. I have explained the distinction here in practical terms: https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/07/27/meg-4-mooring-numbers-why-ships-are-still-getting-confused/
DeepDraft Weekly Maritime Brief | July 26, 2026 Vessel-level risk has spread across the operating picture. Hormuz, the Red Sea, the South China Sea, the Black Sea and the Gulf of Aden now point to the same issue: voyage control margin is narrowing while bridge teams still need to understand the ECDIS correction picture. Full Weekly Brief: https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/07/26/vessel-level-risk-chokepoints-ecdis-july…
Is your bridge team checking only whether ECDIS is updated, or also where each temporary correction sits? Full analysis: https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/07/20/ecdis-corrections-aio-ep-no-overlay/
Shipping must decarbonise. But the burden cannot remain concentrated on the sector that is easiest to measure, regulate and charge. This archive revival looks at war emissions, unequal ESG pressure and the operational reality of ships still managing fuel changeovers and environmental compliance through conflict zones. Full article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/shippings-green-ledger-does-count-war-raghu-sharma-1t…
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A green update report confirms that ECDIS data was loaded. It does not confirm that every correction affecting the passage has been understood. https://thedeepdraft.com/2026/07/20/ecdis-corrections-aio-ep-no-overlay/ Video contains AI-generated visuals. Read the article for the detailed technical analysis.
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @SeafarersLens. 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.
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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 14 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“DeepDraft” (@SeafarersLens), 249 subscribers as measured 14 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/SeafarersLens.
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.