The First Sea Lord Expresses His Displeasure
Speaking in my pretend professional capacity, I am amazed at the growing reports of alarming sea hijinks.
About the time I was going to post this appalling story about unreported tug collisions, small explosions, near misses and falsified documents among Conoco's brand new Polar tanker fleet (you know, the one you see out the window in Valdez, Port Angeles or San Francisco), this tidbit about a Dutch submarine having offed a french fishing trawler um, surfaced.
It occurs to me that the primary maritime accomplishment (as opposed to launching cruise missles, which, let's face it, could be done from a Grumman Goose) of the world's insanely expensive submarine fleets has been to accidently sink a couple of trawlers. They could try sending them after the real, modern pirates who keep running off with ships, but how do you stop a 12ft. 100hp rubber galleon with a torpedo?
posted by JAB at 6:25 PM
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The Navy is already hard at work on the anti-Orca sonar system - powerful active sonar (read: a fucking loud sound) is a prime suspect in the beachings of whales and dolphins.
It should be noted that the most effective anti-trawler system is the massive, often Asian or Russian, industrial trawlers that drag clean the ocean bottom and destroy absolutely everything, in addition to catching the fish they're after.
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