Tin foil hat on....

[ReaperSS]

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... .

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... http://tryimg.com/3/1afa.jpg Where its been all night... http://tryimg.com/3/2hhh.jpg Zoomed in on the zig zagging... wonder whats there? http://tryimg.com/3/3wpw.jpg

[ReaperSS]

I recon there is something good out in that location. Water depth there would be 500meters i would think

[ReaperSS]

Left Garden island 7pm and zig zagging at midnight. Swell 4.5 meters. Very uncompfortable!

[EVLO]

Night exercises perhaps? Need to be prepared for all conditions..

[regi]

how can you name a military ship 'seahorse'

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PqOLCUgzvYk/T2oyFscwYWI/AAAAAAAABj4/sHYFEOMnF2Q/s320/Seahorse+by+OZ-best.jpg

[ReaperSS]

One of the guys on the fishin forum said that ship does torpedo recover so maybe thats what it was lookin for?

[Damo 69]

that is an interesting hobby you have marc

[180SXTCY]

it was locking oft he Rottnest monster...

[schnoods]

Wow what a blast from the past (for me).

My first job 14 years ago was a labourer for a mobile sandblasting mob, i was 15 at the time. We worked out at garden island for 2 weeks sandblasting and repainting the main deck of the Seahorse Standard. Was such a shit job, especially climbing the ladder with a 40kg bag of garnet to fill the hopper to do touch ups.

Also cleaning up the used garnet was shit. fill a wheelie bin a third full and when the crane came to lift it up, the arse fell out of it. Was a real FML moment, i knew that i had too much brains to do that shit for a living...

[ReaperSS]

Damo : One of many lol Nah just was looking at what ships were out in that big swell today. Yep always looking for something exciting

[huggy_b]

Probably looking for Ruby Snapper spots......

[Damo 69]

its probs working on escorting a US nuclear sub through the secret tunnel into garden island with australia's nuclear weapons

[Janey Waney Toot Toot]

You're probably onto something, there are a few wrecks down there.

[regi]

looks like they were just doing 'mainy's', trollin' for bishes (fishes?)

[ReaperSS]

Looks like its been used for similer things before... http://www.defence.gov.au/media/download/2007/mar/20070301a/

[Fozzy]

Rottnest trench is a submarine training area. More than likely a support vessel for those operations or torpedo recovery etc as mentioned.

[hostage_85]

Sorry to burst your bubble Ninja,
The Sea-Horse standard is a Government owned ship that gets hired out for Many different offshore testing scenarios.
Earlier this year I was working with a client that hired it so that they could Depth test there ROV frames. I also have a job booked with another client later this year that will be using it to test ROV launching frames from the back of it.

[Jumanji]

Denzel and Gene, struggling to get past Rottnest......


http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/images/2012/08/Crimson-Tide.jpg

[ReaperSS]

oh well, thought it was interesting seeing as though it was out in that swell last night through the night

[hostage_85]

... yeh lol, the Navy are lucky that Vessel manages to stay afloat haha

[evoeata]

navy uses it for heaps of different things. we used to send our boarding party onto it to test boardings. its also used for force protection for training for ships going to the gulf. youd be suprised how many exercised the navy do in cockburn sound and out the back of rotto.

[RICEY]

Does Dexter have timeshare in that boat?

[Niva]

It was a training mission right up until Ninja pressed print screen, fallout ahoy!

[Tocchi]

ROV ops ... torp recovery practice exercises.
they float they good, they sink time to go retrieving.

[Phyber]

Here's an intercepted photo from the ship's transmissions back to Garden Island last night, you might have to squint a bit to make it out.
























http://images.wikia.com/dragonball/images/6/67/Cthulhu.jpg

:)