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06/16/2026
Good routing is built on years of experience, an understanding of how vessels behave at sea, and the ability to communicate clearly when conditions are evolving fast. 🌊
Meet Shahin Anjum, Routing Specialist at Sofar Ocean. With nearly 15 years spanning vessel operations, weather routing, and voyage optimization, including time as a Navigating Officer, Shahin brings the kind of firsthand maritime experience that makes routing guidance both technically sound and practically useful.
Read the full Q&A to learn how Shahin approaches fast-changing conditions, what it takes to earn a Captain's trust, and why he believes better data leads to better outcomes across the maritime industry: https://www.sofarocean.com/posts/meet-the-routers-q-a-with-shahin-anjum
Ocean soundscapes are shifting.
Low-frequency noise from large vessels can mask baleen whale communication, disrupting mating calls, mother-calf bonding, and social coordination. The frequency ranges significantly overlap.
Reducing underwater noise pollution has become a formal conservation priority for the United Nations and the International Maritime Organization. Speed reduction is one of the most effective operational tools available.
“We are confident that collaboration between Sofar Ocean, Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies, and the broader shipping industry can accelerate the adoption of smarter sailing strategies in whale hotspots around the world.”
Source: Dr. Vanessa ZoBell, PhD, Voices in the Sea, Scripps Institution of Oceanography — voicesinthesea.ucsd.edu
📷 Adam Ernster Photography
06/08/2026
Sofar Ocean is proud to work with Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme - SPREP, the Sāmoa Meteorological Service, and Kiribati Meteorological Service teams. 🌊
Happy World Oceans Day!
🌊 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐎𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐏!
The United Nations is asking us to reimagine our relationship with the Ocean this year: to see ourselves not as bystanders, but as guardians.
In the Pacific, we've always known the Ocean as family. This World Oceans Day, we're investing in tools that help us listen to it more closely.
Kiribati and Samoa are receiving 20 new ocean-monitoring buoys through the European Union-funded ClimSA Pacific programme, sending real-time data on waves, temperatures, and weather straight from the sea to the people who need it most: forecasters, fishers, and coastal communities.
Happy World Oceans Day from SPREP's Climate Science and Information Programme!
Because protecting what we love starts with understanding it. 💙
👉 Read the full story: https://www.pacificrcc.net/news/kiribati-and-samoa-receive-new-ocean-monitoring-buoys-under-eu-funded-climsa-pacific
Every whale species has its own voice.
Blue whales communicate in tones too low for human hearing, calls that travel hundreds of miles underwater. Humpbacks compose songs with complex, evolving structure. Bowhead whales produced 184 distinct song types over four years without repeating a single one. S***m whales use a click-based system with combinatorial structure scientists are only beginning to decode, something closer to a phonetic alphabet than a simple signal.
This World Ocean Day, Sofar Ocean and Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies put together a playlist of whale song. Audio sourced from Voices in the Sea, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Vanessa ZoBell, PhD
Playlist link in comments. 🎧
📷 Adam Ernster Photography
Ocean conditions shape decisions around the world.
In the past few months alone:
🌀 Spotters have captured observations from within a super typhoon in the Pacific.
🧊 A Spotter deployed near Alaska unexpectedly resurfaced near Greenland after drifting through Arctic sea ice.
🚢 As shipping patterns continue to evolve, more vessels are spending time in the Southern Ocean's notoriously rough conditions around the Cape of Good Hope.
These events highlight the importance of understanding ocean conditions and the need for ocean intelligence.
At Sofar Ocean, we're decoding the ocean in real time.
Register for our upcoming webinar to hear firsthand how Spotter sensors captured real-time data from inside Super Typhoon Sinlaku: https://tinyurl.com/4hmnmzs8
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