[Seacurity]

Check out this story, its worth the read. It takes a few seconds to load the page because of all the pictures so be patient.

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This post edited by Seacurity 10:45 PM 08/10/2008

 

[RookieHook]

WOW....can't imagine the feeling! I can't believe those guys were out there fishing with that gunship there...takes some balls!!! I probably would have been cowering inside. I understand the tuna pen owners would be upset...but to call a gunship in???? Why did it come to that? Also, the last post on page 4 is by someone calling these guys @$$holes.....if it was a mistake, what else would they do with the 12 hours they were stuck. What did they do that was so bad? And who at their home port would be mad at them for hitting a Mexican Tuna Pen? Also, why is he surprised that the Coast Guard came to help when there were gunships in international waters trying to board an American Vessel? I like the pictures of the fillets!!!

 

[shebeen]

Time for all the nautical ninnies to chime in.

As another person WHO WAS NOT THERE....props to the CG but it also seems the Mexican Navy and crew of the "persaner" (lol) did a good job of getting this guy out.

Crazy story.

 

[SomedayCame]

Talk about fishin' in a barrel!!!

 

[Scott1280]

The "gunship" was probably either Mexican Navy or coast guard. Even our Coast Guard Safe Boats have m-60's mounted on them.

One question, from a guy "who wasn't there: Wouldn't they have seen the two seiners on radar, if not the railing on the pen no? Whether the boats were lit at night or not, how many guys here run 40 miles off-shore w/o radar?

 

[RookieHook]

Scott1280 wrote:
The "gunship" was probably either Mexican Navy or coast guard. Even our Coast Guard Safe Boats have m-60's mounted on them.

One question, from a guy "who wasn't there: Wouldn't they have seen the two seiners on radar, if not the railing on the pen no? Whether the boats were lit at night or not, how many guys here run 40 miles off-shore w/o radar?

I believe in one of the pics you can see he has radar, and I think he mentioned there were no radar reflectors on the pen (I don't have radar, so I don't know how it works, but I rarely leave the bay, maybe only a few hundred yards out thats it). He probably fell asleep, and is lucky it ended the way it did. I read another article on this that says the boat sustained over $70 grand in damage and the pen around $7 grand. Still, a crazy story right?

 

[gverb1219]

Crazy story indeed.

But, what I don't get is why did the seiners guys have to cut the railing apart to get them out.

If they had drove up and over the rails wouldn't there have at least been a section where the rails were damaged...........and all they would have had to do was separate the pen.
How does a boat that size go up and over that without chopping the PVC up.........

.....and it sounds to me like the Mexican gunship was doing a good job of helping out.......

 

[6to8ftSeas]

That sucks!!!!!!!

gverb1219 wrote:
Crazy story indeed.

But, what I don't get is why did the seiners guys have to cut the railing apart to get them out.

If they had drove up and over the rails wouldn't there have at least been a section where the rails were damaged...........and all they would have had to do was separate the pen.
How does a boat that size go up and over that without chopping the PVC up.........

.....and it sounds to me like the Mexican gunship was doing a good job of helping out.......

I was thinking the same thing......... didn't they say the feds went under the boat and fixed their prop. I think they just wanted to make out a report like our coast guard wanted to do. but, not knowing how to speak Spanish I probably would have pooped myself as well

I would assume the pen just bent and twisted down. they said the the commercial boat wanted to pull the boat over the pen again but the yacht owner was afraid it would rip out the running gear. the boat probably had an easier time getting over the rail on a plane.

Those guys did have some balls to start fishing in the pen

This post edited by 6to8ftSeas 06:32 PM 08/11/2008

 

[gverb1219]

6to8ftSeas wrote:

Those guys did have some balls to start fishing in the pen

I thought that too.........here they are with the seine boats there, and then the Mexican Nationals coming and they fish in the penn........

Fishing would have been the last thing on my mind...........

 

[ahiman]

Those pipes aren't PVC. They are made from high density polyethylene. When I worked for the State of Hawaii at the Natural Energy Lab our seawater pipelines were made from the same stuff. Very buoyant and nearly indestructible.

 

[paulh]

If I watched / read correctly, weren't the owners of the pen Korean ? The Mexican "navy" was contacted by the US Navy / CG. They had no interest in the pen or the tuna hence the destruction but actually did a good deed. Fishing in the pen seemed a very strange response, a guess you had to be there. What about west coast bluefin limits ?