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July 15, 2005
I feel so much safer, really...
I commute on a boat. A big boat.
So it was with some bemusement that I noticed that after the London bombings, the ferry runs are being escorted by coast guard patrol boats. They're basically over-grown zodiacs with a front-mounted .50 cal machine gun.
It's the worst sort of security theater. Assuming that an attack from on-ship is more likely than a water-born attacker, these patrol boats are useless. They can't observe passengers for suspicious behavior - they can't see into the passenger deck, or onto the car deck; and were there to be an attack, they lack the capacity to assist in passenger evacuation or rescue.
So what, exactly, are those added patrols accomplishing?
Posted by dberger at July 15, 2005 10:29 AM