Ship off HPP coast

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Side view of KOK

Yes!
That’s the ship.
Thanks Carey!

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard

[Gdhsquare]

It’s a Chinese spy ship.

[TomK]

Gdhsquare wrote:

"It’s a Chinese spy ship."

For crying out loud, no it isn't, it's a UH research ship.

[PaulW]

Thanks Carey!

[mella l]

LOL very cool spy ship lurking off the new lava coast collecting data for a hot land invasion.

quote:

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Originally posted by TomK

Gdhsquare wrote:

"It’s a Chinese spy ship."

For crying out loud, no it isn't, it's a UH research ship.

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mella l
Art and Science
bytheSEA

[randomq]

But many of the ships parts were made in China. Including computers and cellphones no doubt loaded with spyware. Additionally the people on board eat food imported from China, and we are what we eat...

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Chinese ship
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Chinese spy ship
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Chinese spy ship

Non-existent Chinese spy ships off the HPP coast are one reason why we spend so much on military defense (unfounded fear), and so little on what is right in front of our faces, the seemingly invisible hungry kids who arrive at Pahoa Elementary School in the morning without slippahs.

U.S. Navy Admiral addressing Congress next year at the budget appropriations committee meeting:
“ ... we make this modest request for a 15% increase in year to year defense spending, because with numerous, I repeat numerous sightings of Chinese flagged spy vessels plying the coast off eastern Hawaii Island we cannot afford to let our guard down. Who knows how many Chinese submarines are circling deep below the Pacific around Hawaii, even as we speak here today? I’m confident the good people of Puna District could provide us with a credible number, if necessary.”

[Carey]

I find it so odd how a research vessel that is often (most every summer & part of each school year) studying offshore of Kilauea (along with its sister ship), is most every time they are sighted, ID`ed by people as a spy ship
I would hope spy ships are better camouflaged, as EVERY time these boats are reported here, someone cries "SPY SHIP" or some other nonsense...

OF COURSE I realize that some THINK there is evil intent going on this research vessel....and there are impressionable students always aboard, still, it would be hard sneak evil intentions on ship that stays, pretty much, within the view of the shoreline...

[PaulW]

"At sea level the horizon is 3 miles away. "
I always find that a very interesting fact, I often ask people to estimate the distance and they think its 30 miles or more!

[ironyak]

The spies have a pretty good cover story - they're willing to even give you a tour of their KoK reconnaissance vessel:
https://www.facebook.com/jackie.caplanau...388201933/

Caught them in action deploying a new submarine surveillance device!
https://www.facebook.com/jackie.caplanau...743366933/

ETA: extra video link