Valnao@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agoIran unable to open the Strait of Hormuz to more shipping traffic because it cannot locate all of the mines it laidwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up1118arrow-down114
arrow-up1104arrow-down1external-linkIran unable to open the Strait of Hormuz to more shipping traffic because it cannot locate all of the mines it laidwww.nytimes.comValnao@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square20linkfedilink
minus-squarenutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·3 months agothat’s what happens with mines and it’s why they’re not fucking legal at all. you need a bunch of giant rats to help comb the land and they still blow farmers arms off 30 years later. imagine if they were fucking underwater
minus-squareTypotyper@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoThe giant rats would drown
minus-squareDoom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoThey use dolphins in the ocean. (I wish I was kidding).
minus-squareDreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoExcept that they are completely legal, you are correct.
minus-squarenutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoafaik it is illegal to use them to block commercial waterways which connect two giant international bodies of water
minus-squareDreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoWell, that is against UNCLOS, but while Iran signed it, they did not ratify it. So, kinda not really.
that’s what happens with mines and it’s why they’re not fucking legal at all. you need a bunch of giant rats to help comb the land and they still blow farmers arms off 30 years later. imagine if they were fucking underwater
The giant rats would drown
They use dolphins in the ocean. (I wish I was kidding).
Except that they are completely legal, you are correct.
afaik it is illegal to use them to block commercial waterways which connect two giant international bodies of water
Well, that is against UNCLOS, but while Iran signed it, they did not ratify it. So, kinda not really.
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