HMCS Charlottetown Boarding Party

Her Majestyís Canadian Ship (HMCS) Charlottetown conducted a boarding of a vessel in the Northern Arabian Sea off the coast of Pakistan. The vessel was suspected of conducting illicit activities with links to terrorism. After boarding it was determined that this vessel and crew were smuggling alcohol illegally. It is believed that this smuggling network has links to terrorism.

Her Majestyís Canadian Ship (HMCS) Charlottetown is currently deployed on Operation ALTAIR (Roto 3), Canadaís maritime contribution to the continuing United States led campaign against terrorism known as Operation Enduring Freedom.

Under the Command of Commander Patrick St-Denis and with a crew of 250 Officers and sailors, including a CH-124 Sea King helicopter detachment, HMCS Charlottetown is conducting surveillance patrols and maritime interdiction operations to control sea-based activity in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea. HMCS Charlottetown will also be assigned to monitor shipping, escort commercial vessels, and help detect, deter and protect against terrorist activities to bring long term stability to the area.

Throughout the deployment, HMCS Charlottetown will also conduct port visits designed to reinforce established regional relations and demonstrate Canadaís ongoing commitment to international security.

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[seapatrol232]

wow, thats amazing,

the seas rock a lot more over near canada than they do in australia.

cool.

[Welshy86]

That's not near Canada, it's somewhere in the northern Arabian sea. However we can get some large swells of the coast here.

[reidrocks23]

Wow looks tough to get on when the sea is swelling like that.

[101andrewj]

@420greenmarine the boarding party is all normal crew, some of them are cooks, some work in the engine room, some are officers on the bridge... you have to be tough and fit, good with small arms and if you want to guarentee your spot, learn to speak arabic, or hindu, or any of the local languges in the western indian ocean

[Petyr23]

It's a secondary duty. The Boarding party is made of of all different trades in the Navy.

[420greenmarine]

can you give me some info on joining boarding party team

[420greenmarine]

i want to do this full time how do I get into boarding party fulltime. i am very serious that this is what i want to do

[seachicken963]

Great vid! brings back many a memory of the med and the gulf, USN VBSS Fc3, man i miss it, we did one bout as rough as that, in the med, i ended up with split open noggin on the fuel line of the RHIB and another guy ended up waste dip in the drink during disembark, gettin off was always trickier than gettin on to me, man salt water and open wounds,USS Spruance DD-963 RIP, good times, love the vid, hope you dont mind gonna put this one on myspace!

[seapatrol232]

ohhh okayy. thats cool.

yeahh in australia or near our coast, we only get the big ones coming from antartica.