Something interesting going on in the deep water off rotto
Submitted by tailor marc on Wed, 2013-09-11 08:29
Well maybe not but to be out in 4.5 swell all night zig zaging a really deep part off the back of Rotto by a military ship makes you wonder what they are looking for...tin foil hat on lol.
Why couldnt they do it during the day light in better conditions ;)
Here is the website......
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?level0=100# Here is the screen prints.... Current postition... 
Where its been all night... 
Zoomed in on the zig zagging... wonder whats there? 
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tailor marc
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Left Garden island 7pm and
Left Garden island 7pm and out there all night till heading back now... interesting
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Don't they do training and
Don't they do training and war games out that way?
tailor marc
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Im sure they do. I do know
Im sure they do. I do know they do war games during the day aswell but i doubt a military tig type thing would be doing it. Looks like its scanning the bottom for something. Anyone know how deep it is out there?
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Maybe a good fishin spot haha
Maybe a good fishin spot haha
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Seahorse Standard
the Seahorse Standard is a DMS vessel, I'm pretty sure they do the submarine torpedo recoverys for the navy with that one.
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Crashed Foo Fighter? =)
Crashed Foo Fighter? =)
tailor marc
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That makes sence.. Anyone
That makes sence.. Anyone know how deep around that location is?
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That wasn't the first time
That wasn't the first time they went out in rough seas... saw them when i was at north mole for snapper.... 4 rubber duckys loaded with personel circling around that blue boat if not mistaken escorting it to rous head where the rotto ferry launches. swell easily 3.5m-4m 30-40km northerlies must be something important.
Tradewind
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I was there on that
I was there on that particular afternoon
It looked like a practice run where they were escorting in rough seas
Very surreal watching it
MattMiller
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They're
probably doing a few deep drop drifts
Doesn't look too far out. 50-60kms?
tailor marc
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Looks like its been used for
Looks like its been used for similer things before... http://www.defence.gov.au/media/download/2007/mar/20070301a/
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Some clown probably launched
Some clown probably launched a UXB and they're trying to recover it lol.
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What ever you do don't push
What ever you do don't push that red button. Opps too late!!
Looks like they went a bit further out, pinged someone, then moved in and did a few drifts when the other boat moved off the spot :-)
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Interesting how they had to
Interesting how they had to do all this through the night. Must of been urgent or secret ;)
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Oow important miltary stuff
Hardly, there bloody drift lines like paul h says , blue eyes on the menu at the officers mess tomorrow night boys!
If these guys want some practice try heading to syria , were they can at least do some good.
Hey I respect our fighting men and women , bloody tough , thankless job, but
I do wonder why our ships have stick on fish rulers on the sterns!!
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Davi-d
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I did see a sub entering into
I did see a sub entering into the Sound heading to Garden Island on Monday so maybe they are out to recover something from it
Alan James
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Just on daylight we saw three subs
not that far north of Rotto as we were heading out on Monday.
Jason P
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Looks to be the Derwent Wreck
By my estimations i would say it was the Derwent they were looking at at about 180m deep.
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Heard chatter on the VHF
radio on Monday. A Sub calling base or something. Heard it throughout the morning
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as mentioned does the torpedo
as mentioned does the torpedo recoveries, also l used for sub escapes as the navy doesnt have its own
if u really wanna know ph bob or don at dms
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Something is going on, heaps
Something is going on, heaps of military arrived in exxy today, well yesterday, heard there is a navy ship and poss sub at the pier too
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Bout fukin time
Bout fukin time
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I have read about people in
I have read about people in the UK calling the police saying there are people out in boats during massive storms. It turned out to be the SBS Special Boat Service (the water SAS) training in these storms. Surprised so much information for a military craft. Be thankful were cosy in bed and its someones job to be out there in those conditions.
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Hmmm, from memory it was only
Hmmm, from memory it was only just slightly NE of the north end of that run where I found THIS : http://fishwrecked.com/forum/whats-1
Never found out who's it was and Fisheries etc confirmed it wasn't theirs.
if it WAS for submarine torpedo recovery I'm bloody glad i didn't pull the rest of it up !!!