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Physics scrutiny of WiFi-band maritime sensing scenarios. Steel skin depth is 3.25 um at 2.4 GHz, making bulkheads utterly opaque. Saltwater attenuation is 853 dB/m. The 'through-bulkhead WiFi radar' framing common in conservation/maritime is wrong; the actual feasible category is 'through-seam' sensing exploiting slot diffraction through gaskets, hatch seals, and vent grilles. Composite link budget for 7 maritime scenarios (ESP32-S3 121 dB budget, 10 dB SNR margin): FEASIBLE: - Man-overboard surface @ 200 m: +25 dB - Cabin door, 2 mm seam: +31 dB - Cabin door, 5 mm seam: +39 dB - Container, 30 mm vent slot: +45 dB IMPOSSIBLE: - Closed 10 mm steel door: -938 dB - Submarine pressure hull: -929 dB - Head 30 cm underwater: -231 dB Five feasible verticals catalogued: man-overboard surface, through-seam crew vitals, container tamper detection, hatch-seal predictive maintenance, engine-room thermal anomaly via condensation. Composes with prior threads: - R6 Fresnel envelope + slot diffraction = narrower composite envelope - R10 link-budget primitives reused unmodified for air-side maritime - R7 multi-link consistency essential against superstructure jammers - R14 privacy framework transfers directly to crew-cabin monitoring Honest scope: best-case ignores vessel vibration (5-30 Hz, in-band with R10 gait frequencies), engine ignition noise, salt-spray, steel-surface multipath. Maritime gait-classification is harder than land. The romantic 'through-hull radar' is now explicitly debunked. The actual product roadmap is gasket-leakage sensing, surface detection, and predictive-maintenance audits. Coordination: ticks/tick-10.md, no PROGRESS.md edit.