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THE LOAD LINE OFFICE IS OPEN

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One mark. Forty thousand hulls. It has said one thing since 1876, and only ever by going under.

LOAD ALL YOU WANT. DECLARE IT.

A container ship with legs and boat shoes, walking through water
01 — WHAT THIS IS

We have no opinion
on your cargo.

In 1876 Parliament ordered a circle with a line through it painted on the side of every British hull. Owners had been loading ships past floating and insuring them past caring. The crews called them coffin ships. The mark won, permanently, for one reason: it is adjudicated by the sea. You cannot lobby water.

I

It never says carry less

Not once in a hundred and fifty years. Carry until the deck is under, if the deck is what you want under. The Office measures exactly one distance: between the manifest and the water.

II

Riding high is not a compliment

An empty ship is not a virtuous ship. It is an unpaid one. In ballast is an insult — it means carrying rocks so you don't capsize while carrying nothing.

III

A lie detector with a paint pot

A full hull honestly declared is in perfect order. An empty hull claiming a cargo is a fraud with excellent freeboard. That is the whole moral system.

0HULLS WEARING IT
0YEARS ON DUTY
0WATERS OF THE WORLD
0THING IT EVER SAYS
02 — THE SIX READINGS

Same face. Different water.

The bar is the mouth. Where the water sits on it is the verdict. Drag the sea.

The load line mark
VERDICT DOWN TO THE LINE The line is the surface. Legal, and one swell from not being.
03 — THE PRODUCT

Request a load check.

Submit a vessel — a wallet, a week, a group chat, a diet, a marriage, a country. Choose your zone, knowing that choosing Tropical Fresh is a confession before we start writing.

The Office is a bureaucracy. Bureaucracies have hours.

NO VESSEL PRESENTED

04 — THE WATERLINE

Where the water
actually is.

The Office does not comment on where the water is going. Only on where it is.

RESOLVING POOL… OPEN IN DEXSCREENER ↗

NOT YET FLOATING

No pool indexed. This chart arms itself the moment one exists.

05 — THE STAFF

Six lines. Six waters.
Six surveyors.

The mark carries six lines because the world contains six waters. The one who signs your certificate is set by the zone you declared.

STATUTORY · WRITTEN BY TREATY · WE DID NOT SCHEDULE IT AND CANNOT CANCEL IT

Winter North Atlantic opens 1 November.

The strictest man in the Office returns to his desk after seven months off, measures nothing over 100 metres, and allows nobody anything. The entire fleet rides higher for five months.

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06 — THE CODE BOOK

Deficiencies

07 — BOARDING

How to load

1

Get a Phantom

Install a Solana wallet. Put SOL in it. This is the part nobody writes a certificate for.

2

Copy the mark

Take the contract address from this page. Never from a reply. Never from a DM.

3

Declare your cargo

Swap on pump.fun. Load as much as you like — the Office has never once advised a master to carry less.

4

Show your line

Post your draught, not your number. Money is the least interesting cargo the Office measures.