[Travis McGee]

Comment by an old frogman: the ONLY people who are going to cruise up to an unexploded limpet mine and quickly remove it into a boat loaded with people, are the same people who know exactly what the mine is and how to safely disarm it. All limpet mines come with multiple “anti-removal” devices that will cause them to explode if you try to pry them off. Only Iranian EOD / Quds force frogmen would be able to do this, because they understand their own limpet mines inside and out.

Comment 2: The helo filming the events could be totally outside the visual and audio range of the Iranians, that is, they would not be aware they were being filmed.

“US says video shows Iran removing mine from stricken tanker”

https://www.apnews.com/6a48842e263541a5b3451f0d41dee01a

[Travis McGee]

See above.

[null and void]

Only Iranian EOD / Quds force frogmen would be able to do this, because they understand their own limpet mines inside and out.

could just as easily be written:

Only Russian EOD / Spetznaz force frogmen would be able to do this, because they understand their own limpet mines inside and out.

or even

Only Saudi EOD frogmen would be able to do this, because they understand their own limpet mines inside and out.

or we could blame the Joooooooz.

In politics, it really doesn't matter who actually attached and removed the mines, but only who gets blamed...

[mac_truck]

I seems to me the Iranians had a vested interest in ensuring the Japanese owned oil vessel did not get attacked in the Hormuz while the Japanese Prime minister was meeting in Tehran, which would explain why their patrol boat was in the vicinity.

The presence of a patrol boat would make it more difficult for Saudi frogmen to carry out any type of limpet mine attack, much less one above the waterline.

The fact the US military had the cargo vessel under surveillance adds credence to the notion that there was prior knowledge an attack was going to take place.

Now the Japanese shipping company itself is disputing the limpet mine story, saying its crew reported seeing airborne objects hit the vessel.

There needs to be a serious inquiry into the type of ordinance that can do the damage sustained by the Kokuka Courageous and whether the Saudis or another third party had access to it.

[Uncle Miltie]

This is why I am a freeper.

Some people here actually know things.

[Mariner]

“Comment by an old frogman”

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.

Otherwise they would not get within 50 feet of it, and then with shields.

But so many here are blinded by their delusions and hatred they cannot think rationally on this matter.

But most are otherwise good Freepers that will come back to the fold after their emotions calm.

[Squantos]

.....did a few dozen Soviet SPM inert training limpets in EOD school but never a live one encountered. .......