Work got interrupted
yesterday after four small, “well equipped” Patrol boats carrying Iranian flag approached
us and started calling us on the VHF. Iran's Revolutionary Guard, with serious fire power on their "roof tops"...(click on photo for enlargement.)
They
politely inquired about the "normal stuff", what we are doing, vessel and crew details.
After about 30 minutes of circling around our vessel, video filming and taken photos,
they took off again towards Iranian waters. It turns out there is an on-going
border dispute between Iran and UAE over a few Island in the Straits of Hormuz.
Probably only
wanted to check us out, and at the same maybe intimidate a little bit.
Quite a polite and relaxed experience, compared to the extremely dangerous
harassment I was exposed to a few years ago, with months of “big”
Turkish warships, F16 fighter planes trying to stop us from carrying out our job. This prolonged harassment and dangerous interference, were the last of a long range which
together led to a diplomatic conflict, that just got “nipped in the but” before turning
into full scale aggression I heard from a local source later (mobilizing
military etc.) That is another long and still sensitive story. That I probably will have to wait until retirement with revealing all the details film and photo.
Graens dispyter.
Arbetet avbroets igaar naer fyra "vael utrustade" Iranska patrullbaatar naermade sig och boerjade anropa paa VHF'n. De fraagade artigt de vanliga fraagorna, vad vi hoell paa med vaara fartygs data och lite om besaettningen. De cirklade runt oss i c:a 30 minuter, filmade video och fotade sedan gav de sig ivaeg igen emot Iranskt vatten.
Det paagaar en territorial dispyt emellan Foerenade Arab Emiraten och Iran oever ett antal oear i Hormuz sundet.
De skulle antagligen bara kolla vad jag hoell paa med och kanske ocksaa foersoeka faa mig lite nervoes.
Men det var en ganska artig och avslappad efarenhet, jaemfoert med vad jag erfor foer ett par aar sedan paa en annan Seismisk skuta. Med maanader av incidenter naer stoerre Turkiska krigsfartyg och F16 flygplan foersoekte stoppa vaart arbete.
