Oil tanker possibly seized off Isle of Wight

[spitfire]

Don't they practice crossbow in the SBS?

Tactical harpoon.

 

[platinumsage]

 

[spitfire]

Likely to involve special forces eh?

What, are the Portsmouth Sea Cadets busy or something?

 

[kebabking]

sources close to any publicly available flight tracking app say...

 

[platinumsage]

lights out

 

[kebabking]

Hijacked by Maureen off of The Driving School....

 

[MickiQ]

Clearly whoever is currently at the controls doesn't know how to drive one of these things.

 

[kebabking]

COD Warriors - we're rolling!

(We're not).

 

[spitfire]

 

[kebabking]

BREAKING: RAF Chinook hijacked by stowaways!

 

[cupid_stunt]

They are not doing a very good job of drawing a cock & balls.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Kind of ironic, an oil tanker seized.

 

[tim]

The Isle of Wight is, apparently, England's second most populous Island. Which begs the question; where on earth is number one? There must be a landmass of the English coast but within territorial waters with a population of over 100,000. I've been looking at the map in the weather forecast all my life and never noticed it. I find that more perplexing than a ship on an erratic trajectory.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

The Isle of Wight is, apparently, England's second most populous Island. Which begs the question; where on earth is number one? There must be a landmass of the English coast but within territorial waters with a population of over 100,000. I've been looking at the map in the weather forecast all my life and never noticed it. I find that more perplexing than a ship on an erratic trajectory.

Sheppy

Or alternatively an English person has said 'England' when they mean Britain/ UK.

 

[agricola]

The Isle of Wight is, apparently, England's second most populous Island. Which begs the question; where on earth is number one? There must be a landmass of the English coast but within territorial waters with a population of over 100,000. I've been looking at the map in the weather forecast all my life and never noticed it. I find that more perplexing than a ship on an erratic trajectory.

Ireland?


grabs bowler hat and sash, and flees

 

[ska invita]

 

[Plumdaff]

The Isle of Wight is, apparently, England's second most populous Island. Which begs the question; where on earth is number one? There must be a landmass of the English coast but within territorial waters with a population of over 100,000. I've been looking at the map in the weather forecast all my life and never noticed it. I find that more perplexing than a ship on an erratic trajectory.

Portsea

 

[planetgeli]

The Isle of Wight is, apparently, England's second most populous Island. Which begs the question; where on earth is number one? There must be a landmass of the English coast but within territorial waters with a population of over 100,000. I've been looking at the map in the weather forecast all my life and never noticed it. I find that more perplexing than a ship on an erratic trajectory.

Portsea Island.

Apparently.

Number 3 is Lothingland.

What?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Every day a school day. I had never heard of Portsea.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Portsea Island.

Apparently.

Number 3 is Lothingland.

What?

I had to Google that as well. Surely Sheppy beats it. Sheppy has to win at something.

 

[existentialist]

Indeed, that was my point, guns and fumes and vapour don't mix!

I think you'd better get onto SBS HQ PDQ and warn them of this oversight they've probably missed.

 

[mauvais]

Portsea is the island that Portsmouth's on.

 

[nadia]

Every day a school day. I had never heard of Portsea.

basically portsmouth

 

[platinumsage]

Suspects detained, move along now

Suspects Detained In Major Vessel Operation Off Isle Of Wight

EXCLUSIVE BREAKING: Isle of Wight Radio understands that seven suspects have been detained on board the Nave Andromeda.

www.iwradio.co.uk

 

[editor]

Suspects detained, move along now

Suspects Detained In Major Vessel Operation Off Isle Of Wight

EXCLUSIVE BREAKING: Isle of Wight Radio understands that seven suspects have been detained on board the Nave Andromeda.

www.iwradio.co.uk

Great picture from that article

 

[StoneRoad]

I take it that NOTAM will be ended shortly ?

and someone had better teach that idiot mp not to overreact to things ...

 

[platinumsage]

I take it that NOTAM will be ended shortly ?

and someone had better teach that idiot mp not to overreact to things ...

Sky News just said SBS have boarded the tanker and captured all the stowaways, so don’t think anything he said was an overreaction?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Suspects detained, move along nownd beyond

Suspects Detained In Major Vessel Operation Off Isle Of Wight

EXCLUSIVE BREAKING: Isle of Wight Radio understands that seven suspects have been detained on board the Nave Andromeda.

www.iwradio.co.uk

I am amazed that Isle of Wight Radio has managed to swing into action on a Sunday, they only have a couple of reporters, and beyond having their own Breakfast Show, the rest of their output comes from More Radio in Sussex,

 

[platinumsage]

Official:

 

[cupid_stunt]

Sky is reporting the whole operation only took 7 minutes to take control of the tanker.