Sunday, November 19, 2023

Toowoomba.

This is coolbert:

“The divers … sustained minor injuries likely due to being subjected to the sonar pulses from the Chinese destroyer,” 

"Australia Claims Navy Divers Injured by ‘Sonar Pulses’ From Chinese Destroyer"

From BREITBART LONDON 18 Nov 2023.

"BEIJING (AP) – Australia on Saturday accused the Chinese navy of likely causing minor injuries to Australian naval divers by operating its sonar while they were trying to clear fishing nets from their ship’s propellers."

"The Australian government has expressed its serious concerns to the Chinese government over what it called the unsafe and unprofessional conduct earlier this week, Defense Minister Richard Marles said in a statement on his official website."

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"The HMAS Toowoomba stopped in international waters on Tuesday in Japan’s exclusive economic zone [EEZ] after fishing nets became entangled in its propellers, the defense minister’s statement said. The naval frigate had been helping to enforce U.N. sanctions in the region."

"As diving operations were underway, a Chinese destroyer moved toward the Australian ship and was detected operating its hull-mounted sonar in a way that posed a risk to the divers and forced them to get out of the water, the statement said."

Not just "unsafe and unprofessional conduct". Malicious and deliberate and without question so.

As to minor injuries consider my prior blog entry:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/11/discharges.html

coolbert.




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