I am now very eager that the place Hormuz will always be remembered as an indelible line of a black stone, in the light of current circumstances. I got a chance to cross the Strait of Hormuz fourfold while visiting Port Bandar Abbas, Iran. It has been a long time since I visited Bandar Abbas on MV Rani Padmini, a Bulk carrier (a type of ship). She sailed out of Dalian, China, to Bandar Abbas. That was a really lengthy voyage. From Dalian, the vessel set underway from the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea, Malacca Strait, the Beloved Indian Ocean, the Lakshadweep Sea and the Arabian Sea. The Arabian Sea water slowly said "bon voyage" for her next sailing in the Gulf of Oman and Further to the Strait of Hormuz. Hormuz has its own Beauty because of its peculiar funnel-shaped narrowing. Geologically, the Strait is a "kink in a hose" formed by the collision of the Arabian and Eurasian plates, which forces the Omani Peninsula into the Zagros Mountains of Ir...