Effenok

Damn, the last one was really tricky. But I finally got it 😅, although just randomly. Figuring out how to write a write-up would be even harder 🫣.

Thanks to #bellingcat for another month of great challenges.

Ok, I am missing something here :(

Bonus Material 2: check Yörük Işık's profile.

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From Crimea to Iran: Two More Ships Join Russia’s Grain-Smuggling Fleet - bellingcat The Zaid and Zafar sailed from a grain terminal in occupied Crimea and unloaded cargo in Iran — we followed them at every step.

Bonus Material 1: learn how shipspotting, vessel tracking websites, and satellite imagery is used in an investigation.

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From Crimea to Iran: Two More Ships Join Russia’s Grain-Smuggling Fleet www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04...

Bellingcat Challege: Strait Through This is the third one of October 2025 Bellingcat Challenges, which introduce us to maritime OSINT. This challenge introduces us to vessel…

Maritime OSINT introduction with Bellingcat Challenges.

Part 1: Introduction to the vessel identification system and ship tracking website with “Straight Through”

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Notifications from Medium. Bellingcat Challenge clapped for 3 articles.

Weeeeeeee. My medium page got a visitor🥳🎉.

Thanks to the Bellingcat community managers for making the challenges experience even rewarding.

Although I would very much like to understand which write-ups people consider useful. Any feedback, especially negative, is always appreciated.

I would look at who donates to mainstream parties that let far-right set the agenda. They protect the wealthy, instead of helping the poor.

Calling for scapegoats instead of solving problems is basically how far-right extrimism works.

write-ups are up :)

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Bellingcat Challenge: Zombies! This is the fifth one of October 2025 Bellingcat Challenges, which introduce us to maritime OSINT. Our task is to verify that a shady…

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Bellingcat Challenge: Cable Conundrum This is the forth one of October 2025 Bellingcat Challenges, which introduce us to maritime OSINT. Our task is to find information about a…

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Bellingcat Challenge: Frozen Assets This is the third one of October 2025 Bellingcat Challenges, which introduce us to maritime OSINT. In this one our task is to identify a…

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Bellingcat Challenge: Terminal Difficulty This is the second one of October 2025 Bellingcat Challenges, which introduce us to maritime OSINT. In this one our task is to geolocate a…

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Bellingcat Challege: Strait Through This is the third one of October 2025 Bellingcat Challenges, which introduce us to maritime OSINT. This challenge introduces us to vessel…

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Write-Ups for Bellingcat OSINT challenge for October are available on my medium page.

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Slight delay. Apparently I can only publish 3 articles per day :(

final preparations for today's livestream (actually immediately after the livestream)😓

Bellingcat Challenge: Seems Fishy September challenges are all about using clues from the background to determine locations of photos

The write-ups are available on my medium page:

Challenge 1: medium.com/@effenok/bel...

Challenge 2: medium.com/@effenok/bel...

Challenge 3: medium.com/@effenok/bel...

Was super honored to have 3 of my write-ups for September challenges being featured in the newsletter.

It was a lot of fun writing them, but also quite a lot of extra work and it was a very pleasant feeling to be appreciated. Thanks to the Bellingcat community managers for their amazing work.

Screenshot of Bellingcat Open Source Challenge "Oceans of Evidence" (October 2025), showing all five challenges as solved.

Bellingcat open source challenge for October completed.

Time to start writing.

Had both the great privilege and some great fun developing some maritime OSINT challenges for the fine folks at @bellingcat.com !

Huge appreciation for their work and other investigative outlets telling the important stories happening on our oceans.