Maritime Domain Awareness · Open-data demonstrator
Global maritime flashpoints, scored daily.
12 strategic chokepoints, each rated from fused open-source signals — live AIS vessel traffic, dated OSINT reporting, metocean conditions and daily satellite imagery. Static site, rebuilt every day.
Updated 7 Sept 2026, 10:21 UTC · narrator: rule-based · sources: Open-Meteo (metocean), NASA GIBS (daily satellite)
Live theatre map
Hotspot assessments
Bab-el-Mandeb
Red Sea — southern gate
Bab-el-Mandeb is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 12.1 kt wind, 0.58 m seas — transit favourable.
Kerch Strait
Black Sea · Crimea
Kerch Strait is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 14.3 kt wind, 0.5 m seas — transit favourable.
Strait of Hormuz
Persian Gulf
Strait of Hormuz is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 4.6 kt wind, 0.28 m seas — transit favourable.
Odesa Approaches
NW Black Sea
Odesa Approaches is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 10.7 kt wind, 0.5 m seas — transit favourable.
Taiwan Strait
East Asia
Taiwan Strait is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 11 kt wind, 1.24 m seas — transit favourable.
South China Sea
Spratly / Scarborough
South China Sea is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 12 kt wind, 1.4 m seas — transit favourable.
Baltic Cable Zone
Gotland · Baltic Sea
Baltic Cable Zone is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 8.4 kt wind, 0.36 m seas — transit favourable.
Suez Canal
Egypt
Suez Canal is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 5.4 kt wind, sea state n/a — transit favourable.
Bosphorus Strait
Türkiye · Istanbul
Bosphorus Strait is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 9.3 kt wind, 0.24 m seas — transit favourable.
Strait of Malacca
Singapore · Indonesia
Strait of Malacca is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 4.6 kt wind, sea state n/a — transit favourable.
Strait of Gibraltar
Iberia · Morocco
Strait of Gibraltar is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 7.3 kt wind, 0.48 m seas — transit favourable.
Panama Canal
Central America
Panama Canal is showing conditions near its structural baseline; open-source coverage is holding steady. No recent open-source reporting was retrieved for the box. Metocean: 2.1 kt wind, sea state n/a — transit favourable.
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