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...sailors are near the end of a three-week tour of duty and are putting the Bay Class vessel through exercises to address mechanical problems. At 0930, Cummins receives a call from the National Monitoring Centre in Canberra, asking Botany Bay to respond to a sighting by a Coastwatch surveillance plane of a suspected foreign fishing vessel (FFV) in Australian waters. Coastwatch has sent Canberra images of the boat showing crew retrieving longlines off the Duncan Islands group, 30 nautical mi. (55 km) north-west of Thursday Island. On the bridge of the 38-m vessel, the skipper accepts...