– This ship is like New York, it never sleeps – says the officer of one of the ships during the “Bay in the Baltic” surgery. Polish services also work at the sea, because it happens that they have to take away suspicious ships. For example, those that revolve near the pipe of the drilling platform.
The ORP Kościuszko rocket frigate offers the possibility of landing the helicopter on board, but for pilots it is one of the most difficult maneuvers, because the ship is still moving and the landing is really hard.
At the time when we landed with a camera, an operational work took place on the ship. – We know exactly what is going on under the sea surface. We know what is happening on the surface of the sea and we also observe the entire airspace – described Commander Piotr Smela, commander of the battle ships squadron 3. Flotilla of ships in Gdynia.
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The operation started over two years ago. In addition to constant presence in the Baltic Sea, it is above all a definite response to no longer potential but real threats.
– We hope that this situation will not escalate at sea and we will not have to use, for example, weapons – admitted Commander Piotr Smela.
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Incident with a ship under an Asian flag
List of suspicious ships or radar deportation – this is what the Navy has. What happens when the unit is detected, which maneuvers close to the critical infrastructure?
– We try to call this unit. We check who commands the unit under what flag was this unit. If he conceals something, it raises some suspicions, the further stage of our activity is conducting a boarding procedure – explains Captain Karol Kukulski from the 3rd Flotilla of Ships in Gdynia.
However, boarding is a last resort. A few hours before our arrival at the frigate, the soldiers noticed a transport ship under the Asian flag, which for no reason stopped exactly above the underwater drilling platform pipe. It was on the clocks after midnight.
– The ship is like New York, he never sleeps. Here we have to watch all the time, because the enemy never sleeps – commented Captain Karol Kukulski.
The container crew announced that he was not controlling the unit. It was difficult to communicate with her. ORP Kościuszko moved towards her. – These are signals for us that something around our infrastructure we care about is starting to happen and we should react – explained Captain Damian Przybysz from the 3rd Flotilla of Ships in Gdynia.
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When Polish soldiers approached the unit, her crew suddenly regained full control over her and sailed away. What exactly did the ship done over the platform pipe? This is not known.
– We often use the word “provocation”, but in fact it is more “testing”. Testing ability, testing possibilities – explained Commander Piotr Smela.
Every hour at the open frequencies the army gives a message that in the event of the unusual situations of civil ships crews, the services immediately inform about it. Increasingly, however, someone drowns out correspondence and emits Russian songs or the hymn of the federation. The GPS signal is also strongly disturbed.
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