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Boats with blue flashing lights.
I am thinking someone on this news group may know what this is, we
have a cruise ship in this morning and early in the morning, before it was light, there were two small boats around it with very bright flashing blue strobes lights. As it got light these boat have hung around, keeping in the area of the cruise ship. I have never seen these boats before, they don't look like coast guard boats but I can't figure out what they are. They are much smaller then the life boats that they ship uses to shuttle people to and from shore. Has anybody else seen these boats and does anybody know what they are? Thank much, Scott |
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Scott:
Good photo and they looke like CG rigid hull inflatables from a distance. Where, oh where, are you located? Aloha |
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"Scott W" wrote in message
oups.com... Mark O. Polo wrote: Scott: I assume you are in the US so the blue flashing lights should indicate a law enforcement vessel ... if not the Coast Guard/Auxiliary then the local harbor police, perchance. Aloha I was kind of thinking the same thing and this seems the most likely. I don't believe we have any local harbor police, not that I have seen anyway. It is a bit of an overstatement to call what we have a harbor, more of a bay with a dock. These boats are bright orange and pretty hard to miss so I would have thought I would have seen them before if they had been around. It was pretty impressive to see them out there this morning, it was so dark we could not make out what was flashing blue, but it was very bright. They seem to be going up to any boat that gets at all close to the ship. Here is a link to a photo of them, not read good detail this was taken from about two miles away. http://www.pbase.com/konascott/image...7/original.jpg Scott Yep, thought so. Those are the fairly new Coast Guard boats that were recently placed into service following 911. They are only used for inland waters and harbor patrols. They are armed with machine guns too. I think they can only hold a crew of four or less due to their size. They are fast as hell too. They were probably working an exercise where terrorist would place explosives on a ship's hull. They do these exercises all the time in the event something really does happen. They are in all major U.S. ports now. |
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"Mike Cordelli" wrote in message
m... Probably local police boats. "Scott W" wrote in message ups.com... I am thinking someone on this news group may know what this is, we have a cruise ship in this morning and early in the morning, before it was light, there were two small boats around it with very bright flashing blue strobes lights. As it got light these boat have hung around, keeping in the area of the cruise ship. I have never seen these boats before, they don't look like coast guard boats but I can't figure out what they are. They are much smaller then the life boats that they ship uses to shuttle people to and from shore. Has anybody else seen these boats and does anybody know what they are? Thank much, Scott It's possible but not very likely since the Coast Guard has these boats with bright orange hulls and steel superstructures. Local harbor patrols/police boats are not usually orange in color. AND these small boats do not carry the diagonal white stripe seen on cutters. |
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Scott:
Your photo appears to have two 25' CG Defender Class boats similar to the referenced photo (not all CG vessels sport the racing stripes): http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=17684 Aloha |
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Getting...................BORING!
"Charles" wrote in message d... In article , shoreguy wrote: Thanks for the pics - Maybe I am getting old but it sure seems funny to see a US military vessel with Honda engines. Yeah, they are Honda engines all right. Here is a photo I took in Charleston Harbor of one of the boats from the Galaxy. http://homepage.mac.com/rail/CoastGuard/PhotoAlbum13.html -- Charles |
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In Los Angeles they are definitely the Harbor Police with bright blue
lights. Steve Hayes Scott W wrote: I am thinking someone on this news group may know what this is, we have a cruise ship in this morning and early in the morning, before it was light, there were two small boats around it with very bright flashing blue strobes lights. As it got light these boat have hung around, keeping in the area of the cruise ship. I have never seen these boats before, they don't look like coast guard boats but I can't figure out what they are. They are much smaller then the life boats that they ship uses to shuttle people to and from shore. Has anybody else seen these boats and does anybody know what they are? Thank much, Scott |
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Narcs
DEA Local cops I just returned from NCL Sea (ex Houston 3/19) and at Houston two local law types got off - they were flashing badges which were Fed and local. They were also very hungover and told the ship's security fellows they were up all night (and they looked it.) I suspect they were on contract assignment and spent their free time "in the lounge." They wanted off early - the ship's cop told them to go back to their rooms and wait the call just like everyone ! Fomer TA in MN |
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Narcs
DEA Local cops I just returned from NCL Sea (ex Houston 3/19) and at Houston two local law types got off - they were flashing badges which were Fed and local. They were also very hungover and told the ship's security fellows they were up all night (and they looked it.) I suspect they were on contract assignment and spent their free time "in the lounge." They wanted off early - the ship's cop told them to go back to their rooms and wait the call just like everyone ! Fomer TA in MN |
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So what is your ****ing point ?
Former TA in MN wrote: Narcs DEA Local cops I just returned from NCL Sea (ex Houston 3/19) and at Houston two local law types got off - they were flashing badges which were Fed and local. They were also very hungover and told the ship's security fellows they were up all night (and they looked it.) I suspect they were on contract assignment and spent their free time "in the lounge." They wanted off early - the ship's cop told them to go back to their rooms and wait the call just like everyone ! Fomer TA in MN |
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