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  • #102
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    In this much vaunted age of technology I fail to understand why during official boardings - US Coastguard and a British Warship - no tracking device/beacon etc. was left on board? Also why was it reported on the rocks by some locals - surely the naval service should have known first.

    They are not omniscient and omnipresent. Hence the large signs at small ports asking folk to be alert to anything suspicious and to help keep the country safe.

    We do have a responsibility to keep an eye out and inform the authorities of anything needing attention


  • #103
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    +1

    However, some people on here were suggesting the opposite i.e. of course the authorities knew about the ship whereas they clearly didn't or otherwise it wouldn't have been locals that reported it washed aground.

    I am all in favour of people reporting suspicious activity and I have done so in the past myself. If some of the now automated lighthouses round the coast had been retained by the government as coastwatch facilities it might have been a good idea.

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