Yesterday, I really was pisses off with Chinese obstacles, stretching in line over 20 NM; adding a safety margin to the eastern end, where we need to go around, it has a length of 30 NM .<\/p>\n
There were with AIS equipped 4 obstacles in linear arrangement. The AIS send a only 8 digit MMSI number. Normal MMSI numbers habe always 9 digits and the first 3 are the MID number, which indicates the flag state of the vessel.<\/p>\n
These obstacles’ send an MMSI starting with 98 which indicates there is an accompanying parent ship somewhere. Later at night, we saw the AIS signature of a parent ship. As this has a Chinese MID, and all devices had the same Chinese sounding name – except for the last 2 digits – I can conclude that the obstacles were Chinese.<\/p>\n
What these obstacles were, we don’t know really. I kept a distance to the line arranged obstacles of 2 – 3 NM and an 6 NM at the east while looking carefully for any obstacles being in the water for while.<\/p>\n
With what we observed we asked Claude AI, and ChatGPT.
\nMost likely it was a kind of fishing device(s); drift nets which are size depending ilegale, drifting squid jigging gear, etc.<\/p>\n
These obstacle moved during the night very slowly NNW. The way they drifted indicates a huge 20 NM long illegal drift net.<\/p>\n
So far about the obstacles.<\/p>\n
They forced us to change our course from NE to E while MaRe at around 7 KN. Next we were forced to sail parallel to the obstacles for about 25 NM.<\/p>\n
Already in the night, the obstacles disappeared from the AIS screen. Nets pulled in that nobody sees?<\/p>\n
With all the fishing by Chinese boats in the entire
\nPacific islands sailed, I am declined to assume the worst, the use of illegal huge drift nets, just the AIS is switched off.<\/p>\n
The point for us is that we can’t rely on disappearing AIS signal.<\/p>\n
Without being disturbed by these Chinese – properly illegal – obstacles we would be about 20 – 30 NM further north, for us a big chunk.<\/p>\n
Today, with the wind is blowing in favor of an easterly course. I hope to be able to sail without such or similar Chinese obstacles an westerly course again tomorrow or the day after.<\/p>\n
During the day we saw two other Chinese fishing boats. According to the AIS data in the 70 m class.<\/p>\n
I am seeing the Chinese emptying the World’s oceans and the World just doesn’t see it. Beside French Polynesia, the Pacific is already the backyard of China. I know why, since 10 – 20 years I avoid Chinese products to the extrem possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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