US Coast Guard: Dark Fleet Tankers Using Risky Digital Tools, Endangering Crews

🚢 DARK FLEET — The ships nobody officially tracks are running tools that could sink them. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Coast Guard findings land as Hormuz reopens and Iranian crude is set to flow again — legally or not. Dark fleet operators used AIS spoofing and GPS manipulation to evade sanctions; those same tools create collision and grounding risks in congested waters. MOU sanctions relief doesn't retire the fleet — it just changes who has an excuse to look away.