⚓Maritime

a fishing fleet with a 72-hour window, an island ferry network inside a transitioning typhoon, and a coastal wind pulse firming to about 80 km/h

Three different clocks on the water. Off south-west Mexico the decision is a port-closure and fleet-recall sequence timed against a Category-4 forecast by about 72 hours — the call that has to be made while the sea is still workable, because a fleet recalled today comes home under its own power. Around eastern Japan, Tokyo-Bay and Izu-chain ferry sequencing runs straight through the closest approach this evening. Southern Brazil's coastal cyclone is at its peak beside three states under a red alert. And on our own monitored Adriatic coast the wind pulse has firmed to 22.3 m/s, about 80 km/h, in-window at the Velebit crossing with 19.5 at the Port of Gruz — internal context with no official orange, so a watch signal and not a warning. For scale on the American side, 249 of today's 336 active alerts are marine. Who owns the call — a harbour master and a fleet manager, on opposite ends of the same forecast.

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