Navy unable to board fishing vessels

[rustyrobot]

Look, I know they probably do a great job with a lack of funding and support from the government, but it's a bit embarrassing that the navy is trying, and unable to, board those fishing boats. They have given the reason that it was due to the 'conditions' (looks pretty calm to me) and evasive maneuvers by the boats' captains. Blow me down - if evasive moves by those rusty old hunks stop them - they've got bugger all chance against a foreign force.

I see from the photo they brought in the entire New Zealand airforce to help too.

Am I being too harsh? I just thought - you know, 3 rusty fishing boats shouldn't be too much of a problem.

[skippa1]

Cant see why they should even try to board, just sink the cunts

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Cant see why they should even try to board, just sink the cunts

...should really board their tub to bugger them and take down their colours before opening the sea cocks...YoHoHo matelots...

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...should really board their tub to bugger them and take down their colours before opening the sea cocks...YoHoHo matelots...

Sort of like a naval patch over.

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Sort of like a naval patch over.

...or even navel lint...

[schrodingers cat]

Tragic story really.
Look I'm certain the thing is being mis-reported but if these theiving cunts are helping themselves in our territorial waters surely we have the right to do a bit more than ask the crooked fellas in the piss pot country they are currently claiming to be registered to if we can ask the nice captain Chappy to have a cup of tea with us.

[schrodingers cat]

Tragic story really.
Look I'm certain the thing is being mis-reported but if these theiving cunts are helping themselves in our territorial waters surely we have the right to do a bit more than ask the crooked fellas in the piss pot country they are currently claiming to be registered to if we can ask the nice captain Chappy to have a cup of tea with us.

Read this tho.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-p...zealands-radar

Fuckers.

I bet if you just sunk the steaming old pieces of shit some lawyer would make you buy them new ones

[awa355]

Dont the navy have a ship with a helicopter on it? Shouldn't be too hard to lower a couple of Bruce Willis's onto the fishing boat. Hope this doesn't hit the world headlines, we'll be the laughing stock of the naval world.

[rustyrobot]

What I don't get is - if Greenpeace and SeaShepherd can manage to board Japanese boats (who are prepared to repel them) on a regular basis... why is it so hard for our Navy? It's not like they are going to get shot at, and they have the go-ahead to board. Surely there's more to the story?!

[skippa1]

. Surely there's more to the story?!

Yep.
work safe will prosecute their arses if they bruise one.


makes me laugh how you read a newspaper article and/or see some footage on tv and youre an expert on boarding a boat in the southern ocean

[caseye]

Do an RNZAF Op's, put a shot (rocket) over their bows! There is a Skyhawk out there with a maru ship under a cross painted on it's flank somewhere.
But hit them instead, damn lucky no one was killed, but the Japs stopped sending their ships down here illegally for quite sometime.
Seriously, ask permission????
Sink them and leave their crews to drown. Our (joke) territorial waters should only be for our use.
Not our fault every other fishing fleet owning country has fished their existing stocks completely out.
Hell if we did blow these schmucks out of the water and were prepared to do it again to any foreign fishing vessel in our waters, we'd be on a roll when it came to selling quota, only through our fleets and only to our closest allies, fuck the rest of em, let them starve.Or better, eat cake.

[Oakie]

What I don't get is - if Greenpeace and SeaShepherd can manage to board Japanese boats (who are prepared to repel them) on a regular basis... why is it so hard for our Navy? It's not like they are going to get shot at, and they have the go-ahead to board. Surely there's more to the story?!

Because if they do it illegally it is called 'piracy'. Greenpeace and SeaShepherd can do it as they are happy to work outside maritime law. The NZ Navy has to observe it (no matter how much they want to have a bit of live firing practice)

[Swoop]

What I don't get is - if Greenpeace and SeaShepherd can manage to board Japanese boats (who are prepared to repel them) on a regular basis... why is it so hard for our Navy?

Seriously? The answer is "osh".

Boarding parties, however, will be chomping at the bit to get over there, Remington and Sig in hand.

"Sea state too rough?".
Mr Browning's .50 cal says "nope!".

[skippa1]

Our (joke) territorial waters should only be for our use.

Dont think they are our territorial waters

The waters of the Southern Ocean, which were previously overfished, leading to the ban, are strictly regulated by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).

[rustyrobot]

Seriously? The answer is "osh".

Boarding parties, however, will be chomping at the bit to get over there, Remington and Sig in hand.

Looks like you are right...

Asked how the two fishing boats, which appear rusty and in poor repair, managed to evade the offshore patrol boat, a defence spokesman said: "Ask MFAT [Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade]." A spokeswoman for MFAT said: "It was an operational decision made for safety reasons."

They've probably been told they can't board until "Caution: Surface may be slippery" signs are put up on the fishing boats, and all hazardous areas are swathed in neon day-glo.