St Albans Head on Sunday, apprx 1000GMT

[dutts]

Hello,

We were returning from Poole to Cowes when received a databurst asking to go to Ch 80, and heard a French chap giving the reported position of something and then advising his current course and speed - 170kts. Anyone know what all this was about?

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[tcm]

hi new chap. i dunno. This sounds a bit implausible - was it possibly a course of 170? Otherwise, i was in yarmouth trundling up towards cowes too in a powerboat and might have seen him temporairly in the unlikely event he skimmed thru the solent for three or four minutes end to end....

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[jimi]

perhaps a fairy on the plane .. or a hell of a chopper?

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[dutts]

Thanks for the replies. It was definitely 170 kts - we all questioned it at the time and thought it might have been a French search and rescue plane looking for something. I just wondered if anyone else had received the alarm and listened to the transmission, and knew what was going on.

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[Robin]

We were mid channel and had this DSC alert. CH 80 is used by Joburg Traffic Control who cover the Casquets TSS, they were talking about a deep draught vessel & asking people to keep clear, they gave it's course and speed but I didn't note it and certainly didn't hear 170kts!

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[Twister_Ken]

Probably QSIV's new boat out tuning.

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[Mr__Max]

The marines and SBS (hanging out with flippers) were out of Hamworthy over the last few days playing with their choppers, so might have been one of the training exercises , as the choppers came in empty the SBS must have jumped out !

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[qsiv]

Not me! Not due to be unloaded until 29th June.

Anyway we'll try and leave the slow speed testing until much later in the summer.

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