[BobClay]

I have read that. I'm not particularly bothered by the politics or reasons of this event, I just wanted to understand the report that the ship raised suspicions and was tracked after it took the long way round instead of going through the Suez Canal. That's how they stated it on TV News.

At first I thought: 'Has that canal been modified so much it can take a tanker of that size fully loaded ?' I now realise it hasn't.

That's a larger ship than any VLCC I sailed on, and I sailed on a few.

I'll put it down to journalism. Perhaps they look at the map and don't understand why a ship would take the long way round. (And it is a long long way when you consider how far Syria is from Iran.) I still don't think they fully understand the sheer size of these vessels.

She's still being plotted on the Marine Traffic Site.