Lots of people say that about Bass strait but I’ve never had a bad experience there.
The worst weather around Australia I’ve seen was off the coast of Queensland, my ship ended up with bent railings and a door nearly ripped off.
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Cunts who drive around with their high beams on. That big blue light that tells you that you’re a fuckhead needs to be made bigger. No fewer than 7 cars blinding me on a 20 minute drive!
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Lots of fascinating youtube docs about Heard/McDonald. If I thought that the boat I was in at the bottom of South America made me lose my lunch then what I’ve seen of the Southern Ocean would have me puking up organs.
The boat we rescued was heading from South Africa to NZ and lost their mast in the southern ocean.
They were drifting in the waves for days before we got there. The waves were so big we would lose sight of them.
Thats a long way south. Do you have to go down that far to catch the westerly trade winds or just that they’d drifted that far?
Draw the straightest line you can between South Africa and New Zealand.
Yeah but to Higdawgs point that’s some dangerous and remote ocean. Not like it’s common for any kind of traffic to head that way. Everything down there currently is a fishing vessel. The purple flagged ones further north look like private yachts.
@Higdawg any idea what those two clusters west of Perth are about? Big fishing grounds?
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Treasure hunters looking for MH370…
I’d hazard a guess that they’re offshore drilling platforms.
If you had the choice, would you go direct or through Indo, PNG and the Islands?
Most of those down south will be fishermen, most likely (illegally) going after Patagonian tooth fish.
Lots on the north west shelf, but I don’t think there’s any OGIs out there, that whole area is in the thousands of metres deep (why they will Port much never find 370.
If I remember, I’ll look tomorrow. My guess is some underwater volcano’s etc attracting some fish.
I only learnt recently that they rebrand it as sea bass or Chilean sea bass in parts of the world 
I had a snoop of what was around there - nothing but giant trenches of the Diamantina fracture zone.
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Without any location reference I’d guess fishing.
It gets really deep out there.
We were looking for mh370 in about 4km of water.
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Bought a ticket for a mate’s kid v Welly…
$8 service fee on a $13.50 ticket.
Happy New Year, Ticketek cunts
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Bloody hell. That’s gotta be criminal
If you look at the marine tracked it says they’re mostly fishing boats.
Yeah that’s what the Chinese say about their fleet as well
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Fishing, or Japanese Research Vessels?
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