#6: Fully Stocked (Maritime Mysteries)

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night spruce
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Day 2: In which city would you find this port?

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grave pagoda
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Found it ||Hamburg||

merry cradle
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quick and easy, ||knew that the string on the cranes was probably related to the name of the port rather than a port management company since it didn’t seem like any i’d heard of, and i’d recently been in the port of oakland. two google searches of the visible characters and “port cranes” later i’d actually found the source image as a stock photo used on a couple of websites, and had the name of the terminal from a photo with another angle. one more search later and i knew it was in hamburg.||

vapid gazelle
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Another way to find it for me : ||Google Lens, image found in a report with credit on a free image database with author name and direct link with the description and city ||

atomic canyon
spice whale
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|| reverse image source revealed it to be Hamburg pretty easily because of the distinct bridge in the background ||

azure leaf
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6: Fully Stocked (Maritime Mysteries)

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Please use this thread to discuss the methods you used in the challenge and ask for help. But be careful not to just give away the answer. You can use double pipes || in front of and behind text to hide it unless someone clicks on it.

Try to focus on the techniques you used instead of simply sharing the answers!

azure leaf
clever rampart
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Tried to use ChatGPT from the start. Uploaded the picture and asked where is this, got only ||"it might be a port where UASC operates frequently"||

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Then I asked it || Which ports do UASC operate frequently|| and one of the answers was ||Port of Hamburg (Germany): A major hub for UASC, especially post-merger with Hapag-Lloyd.||

cedar patio
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Easiest so far ||used the last letters on the crane to get the port linked company, reverse image searched to confirm Hamburg||

eager kayak
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||same image was used a lot, googled uasc + searched for the xxxchardkai and also found the place||

azure leaf
eager kayak
azure leaf
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@peak vigil please use the spoiler tags (by adding double pipes || before and after your message). I've deleted your message to avoid spoling the challenge for others

low plaza
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||Reverse image was great here, you'll find a non-cropped version of the image, and then you can search the letters in the crane on google, it will take you to Burchurdkai, Hamburg||

honest summit
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|| I used Google Lens cropped to just the bridge in the middle, found it that way ||

vocal sail
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Is it fair to use Google Lens to reverse image search? That has been my default start

clever rampart
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all is fair in love and OSINT

azure leaf
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It's up to you, Google Lens is definitely a method you can (and should) use for geolocations in the wild 🔎

Whether you use it here also depends on if you want to practice/learn other skills that can help with geolocations. My suggestion would be to start without it and then use it if the search stops being fun!

tame patio
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||I used reverse image search, found that it had been used in a few articles. Downloaded the photo from one of the articles and the original file name gave a photographer/stock image site name. Googled this and found the same image in their gallery with the location labelled.||

humble swan
clever rampart
spring pier
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|| I tried to find the bridge in the background first but didnt find the right one, then i just searched for the name on the cranes and got a bingo ||

stable trench
violet canyon
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It just looked familiar to me! Turned out I was there this summer. But actually couldn't confirm at first and didn't spend much time on it because it seemed too coincidental and all harbors kind of look the same, so spent a lot of time looking up ||that distinctive style of bridge in the distance. Clicked through Wikipedia's list of notable ones. And when that failed, I finally dug deeper in Google Lens results (focusing just on the bridge) and about the fourth one down was Hamburg.||

left sleet
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There are lots of clues in the picture but not where it is. || Perplexity confirmed what the letters meant and the full word. Plus the location. I confirmed this through an image search of the location - so an easy one. ||

raw mesa
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This one was || fun to find! ||

nocturne bramble
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I'm happy, this is the first one I could do fast ||I looked for uasc, discovered it was container related, looked up buchardkai which is what it says in the cranes and that led me to hamburg, germany since that is where the terminal is||

thick oxide
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Very easy, ||made one google lens search and discovered this image on a stock photos website. Besides the image, there was a location. This photo was taken on May 14, 2018, at Hamburg city, Hamburg Hafen port, in Germany||

devout ingot
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Hi there, I'm deleting your message because the answer needs to be hidden by spoiler tags. You can do this on desktop by right clicking your text and finding that in the options or by adding || on either side of your message.