No one expects the barnacles==
They’re always an issue for ships, but acutely exacerbated by sitting idle in warm water for 90+ days.
Barnacles on the hull are a pain and reduce speed/efficiency, whereas barnacles on propellors can cripple a ship.
Can be removed but will take take and will overwhelm service capacity, which will be stretched paper thin given that we’re talking about trying to clean up 1,500+ ships at the same time.
Update on the barnacle crisis:
“Owners know that you really don’t want ten days of idle time in the Gulf. Fuel bill will go up without hull cleaning. Antifouling producers have clauses in their performance guarantees excluding idle time in waters above certain temperatures.” pic.twitter.com/J6rGWDYSX3
— Marhelm (@MarhelmData) June 1, 2026
Ai says it would take a team of four professional divers 2 to 5 days just to clean a single ship propeller of barnacles
Now extrapolate this to over a thousand ships and not just the propeller
We may be in deep trouble https://t.co/OJdQCHaOPU
— 🏴☠️ (@calvinfroedge) June 1, 2026
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