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by **bill cobbett** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:28 am

The Turkish survey ship Barbaros HP and its guard ships been violating CY waters for some days in a claimed seismic survey.

It's a most curious survey that has involved going repeatedly up and down the southern side of the Karpas Peninsular.

Always kept within sight of shore, sometimes coming within 2 nm of the coast and rarely going outside 5 nm from shore.

It looks as though it is concentrating on a water depth of just under 100m.

The jack-up rig Jupiter is sitting near a port in Turkey and we know it has a maximum operational water depth of 92m.

Anyone else beginning to get a sniff of a provocative propaganda drilling scam coming... ???

Here's a screenshot of its track over the past few hours...

( It's now going around in a circle in Famagusta Bay... :roll:

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by **Oceanside50** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:41 am

Turkey may feel its beginning to lose its grip on the "topouzi" Turk Cyps and this is a way of getting them back in line with false promises of water(from Turkey)and false hopes for Hydrocarbons in less then 100 feet of water..

by **bill cobbett** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:42 am

Think you may be right file.

For contrast, here's the track over the past few hours of the Princess carrying out a real survey in 1500+ metes of water...

by **bill cobbett** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 5:00 am

Here's the track of the Ramform Sovereign for the last few hours...

by **bill cobbett** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 5:06 am

... and here again is the Barbaros, going around in circles, close to shore, in Famagusta Bay.

All very curious.

(They must have picked up a Sardine Shoal on the Fish-Finder)...

by **kurupetos** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:47 pm

Maybe they are just trying to make a hole in the water.

Keep trying lads. :lol:

by **supporttheunderdog** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 5:42 pm

kurupetos wrote:Maybe they are just trying to make a hole in the water. Keep trying lads.

No, the fuckers are lost, that's all.

by **bill cobbett** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:33 pm

It's moved in to deeper water, currently 20nm south-east of the tip of the Karpas.

by **Flying Horse** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 8:57 pm

Well when they find the plughole, maybe they'll disappear down it.

While they are, maybe they can take all that escaped oil they failed to help clean up!