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...there, gathering intelligence, being part of the community, the more work it generates. And there's no such thing as seasonal crime. It's a year-long event." Engaged in sea trials in thursday Island harbor on a warm Friday morning, the crew of Australian Customs Vessel (ACV) Botany Bay are preparing to hand over their boat to a fresh team of eight officers from Customs' national marine unit. Under Commanding Officer Mark Cummins, Botany Bay's sailors are near the end of a three-week tour of duty and are putting the Bay Class vessel through exercises to address...
...Botany Bay drops anchor a nautical mile from the Duncan Islands. Coastwatch has called the ACV with an update of the FFV's location. Because radar can't detect small boats, the binoculars are out on the bridge. The FFV is spotted! There's a rush of excitement and purpose as the four officers who make up a boarding party assemble on the aft deck and load up their kits: life jackets, 9-mm Glock semi-automatics, telescopic batons, capsicum spray, handcuffs, assorted tools, water supply, radio. The sailors climb aboard an outboard-powered tender which is lowered into...
...detainees in the harbor until the morning - a hassle, and also a bureaucratic drag on a $A5 million asset and a highly skilled crew that is supposed to be on call around the clock. Cummins unleashes the throttle and the Indonesians get a taste of Torres Strait waterskiing, Bay Class style...
...overcast Saturday, Fitzsimmons anchors the Hervey Bay off Dalrymple Island, an uninhabited lush coral cay, to set up a checkpoint: 52 Papuans are traveling to Yorke Island for a funeral on Monday. Eight boats are expected to come from Daru Island down the Great North East Channel or, if the weather is rough, the western side of the Warrior Reefs; either way, they'll come past the stakeout position. Overnight, on a high tide, a boat has washed up on Dalrymple. Customs officer Peter Leeman and sailors Joe Homer and Peter Page take a tender to the island to investigate...
...nose checks out the hides that have been cut in the mangroves around the island. No luck. Returning to base, the helo calls in to report that it's clocked a vessel 10 nautical mi. away, at 108 degrees. There's restrained laughter on the bridge of Hervey Bay because the aircraft has actually picked up the ACV. The error breaks the tension and, despite three attempts to call the helo by a skipper trying to keep a straight face, Lima 51 briefly drops out of radio contact...