According to the relevant provisions of the Convention on the Law of the Sea in international law, the requirements for the "innocent passage" of foreign ships within a country's territorial waters are very strict.
If it is a civilian or commercial vessel, then of course there is no problem. There is a wide freedom of navigation and you just have to abide by the traffic rules.
However, for ships that perform special missions, they either need to apply or get approval. The specific laws are very complicated. You judges are not experts in international law, so I don’t need to go into detail. (In fact, they are not very professional. Even in the judicial examination,
There are test points for freedom of navigation/innocent passage, everyone who has passed the test will understand)
Nowadays, the main thing related to the situation of Gu Kun and Mitchell Hatcher is the "innocent passage of submarines".
The law of the sea has very strict requirements for submarines. In the territorial waters of other countries, you must surface and pass through to be considered harmless. If you are performing a special scientific investigation mission and must submerge, you must seek approval from the territorial sea country.
This is also the legal basis of international law why any unmanned underwater vehicle caught by fishermen in later generations can be directly confiscated: it is a diving thing, and it is legal and logical for citizens of the country with territorial waters to directly take it away after fishing it.
Diving is such an unpopular thing, and anyone who catches it can do it.
The reason why so many countries’ submarines in real society can come back alive after wandering into other countries’ waters is not because international law protects these submarines, but because of technology.
It's because these submarines are quiet enough and move quietly enough that the enemy can't even notice them.
The bottleneck is detection technology, not international law.
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Mitchell Hatcher had not noticed the impending disaster.
He still drove his electric submarine with a carrying capacity of dozens of tons and a total displacement of about two hundred tons, dragging cables within a few nautical miles of the charging ship and working carefully.
The reason why he relied so heavily on the submarine this time was mainly because he needed to spread smoke bombs for Gu Kun, so that he did not dare to sail the main scientific research ship near the actual operation point too early, for fear that it would be too conspicuous and Gu Kun would be caught in advance.
Kun leads.
And with a submersible, a lot of preliminary work can be done underwater silently.
In particular, this kind of professional submersible with certain transportation capabilities and operating robotic arms is very efficient. It can use searchlights and sonic instruments to sort out shipwrecks and collect cargo underwater without anyone noticing.
In this way, he can finish most of the work and wait until the last moment when the wind blows, and then rush to load it on the big ship and ship it away.
While he was concentrating on directing the operation, his sonar soldiers finally discovered an anomaly: "Boss, we are heading north-northwest, and there seems to be an unknown sound source approaching! Previously, their azimuth angle with the mother ship was relatively close, and our sonar was blocked by the propeller of the mother ship.
It interfered and was not discovered as early as possible!"
The quality of sonar on civilian scientific research boats is of course not as good as that of military ones. And the noise level of military boats is also much lower than that of civilian ones.
A Kilo class of more than 2,000 tons may have the noise characteristics of a civilian boat of several hundred tons.
Especially as long as you don't buy the early model built before the "87 Toshiba Incident" in the early 1980s, the noise level will drop further.
As we all know, at the end of the Cold War, Toshiba Machinery, a subsidiary of the Japanese Toshiba Group, sold a batch of five-axis linkage machining machine tools to the Lucians. However, Oceania found out that its sonar was difficult to detect Lucia's latest submarine, so it knew that it was a Luxian submarine.
The West Asians used the latest five-axis linkage to process the submarine propeller blades, which reduced the noise, and then the Toshiba incident was solved.
The quality of the one bought by Gu Kun should be good. It can resist the sonar detection of the 1998 civilian scientific research version and is only discovered at a close distance. It is also very reasonable.
"Is it possible that it was a coincidence?" Hatcher still held on to illusions and asked the sonar operator to judge immediately.
After all, his intelligence did not know that Gu Kun had a Kilo-class submarine, and he could not imagine why Gu Kun could upgrade his equipment so quickly.
Unfortunately, during the hesitation, the situation worsened further. Before the sonar operator could make a new judgment, the electromechanical operator first reported: "The charging cable between us and the mother ship has been cut! Now we can only rely on the battery to sail!"
Requesting urgent refloating!”
In fact, their cables were not "cut" by anyone, but were accidentally severed by the propeller of the "Seagull". It was just that the people in the submarine did not know the situation outside.
"Emergency resurface!" Mitchell Hatcher was completely panicked and ordered quickly.
Tens of seconds later, two echoing "boom" sounds were heard from the top of the submarine's head, and the hull of the submarine also vibrated twice.
At this moment, Mitchell Hatcher no longer had any doubts in his mind: "It must be Gu Kun! But is he crazy? If he really has such a big submarine, wouldn't he just use torpedoes to sink us? How dare he hit us?
Aren’t you afraid that you might also get wet?”
You don't dare to launch torpedoes because you're afraid of causing international disputes, right?
What a madman! Is there such a big hatred?
Even though Mitchell Hatcher had seen strong winds and waves, he couldn't help but panic.
I have never seen this kind of attitude of starting things without saying a word! Is this the hatred of killing the father or the hatred of taking away the wife? Are any colleagues in this industry so ruthless?
"Boss, we can't float. The opponent is holding us down and pushing us down. We can't maneuver! The reserve buoyancy is far from enough!" The pilot finally reported the last desperate news.
Gu Kun didn't even want to hit Mitchell.
If it collides, your own ship will also be damaged. Although the Kilo-class anti-collision capability is much stronger and more durable than civilian scientific research submarines, it is unnecessary even if it kills three thousand enemies and damages three hundred.
Therefore, driving over other people's heads, and then filling the tank with water directly to press it to the bottom of the sea is the most gentle way to reduce direct collisions.
When it comes to breaking large rocks on the chest, it is always easier to break the large rocks sandwiched in the middle, but the hammer and the chest are relatively safer.
Even if you are careful and don't crush the opponent directly into hamburger meat, the opponent's cables have been cut off anyway, the power is cut off, the oxygen is cut off, and there is some water leakage, and it will be over after more than ten minutes.
The hamburger meat can be cooked over a slow fire. If it's too slow to cook, just rub it on the seabed a few more times.
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"An accidental collision occurred in the South China Sea. A submarine of unknown nationality maliciously passed through without applying for submersible navigation, and collided with a Lanzhou-nationalized vessel that had applied for legal submersible navigation.
The cause of the accident is suspected to be a malfunction in the sonar systems of both parties, resulting in the inability to detect each other. We deeply sympathize with this accident and once again warn all countries to abide by the Convention on the Law of the Sea and strictly implement the procedures stipulated in the innocent passage clause to avoid the recurrence of the same tragedy.
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"It is reported that the ship on the side of the accident was a Kilo-class submarine of the Lucia Kingdom purchased by the Lanfang Islands through an intermediary of a Chinese shipping company. It was used for anti-smuggling purposes. At that time, the boat was performing a normal voyage from the waters of Northeast Asia back to Lanfang. It was a
The buyer drove back to China by himself. We are deeply unfortunate that such an accident occurred on the first flight."
"The country of registration of the sunken ship has not yet been identified, but the surface vessel that was traveling with the sunken ship at that time has been identified as owned by a maritime research company registered in Panama by a Brittany citizen. Please stay tuned for more details."
Report.”
On the Monday after the incident occurred, the relevant news was quickly disclosed in the relevant professional media - only the professional media, that is, magazines and TV stations for people in the fields of maritime affairs and international current affairs, reported it.
As for the mass media, they will not care about such small accidents. A single-digit casualty is worse than a car accident. If a car accident involving several people died had to be reported, media resources would have been wasted long ago.
However, laymen see the excitement, while insiders see the door.
People who know the industry will naturally know the weight of this accident and what it symbolizes.
The first reaction of viewers who focus on the field of international relations is to look for flaws in international law and suspected violations of the Convention on the Law of the Sea.
However, it seems that the perpetrator of this incident has very solid evidence. The other party did not escape or fail to cooperate. He just towed the victim's power supply boat away, pulled it back to the undisputed waters, and then handed it over to a patrol boat there.
China's fishing and law enforcement ship.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like an ordinary traffic accident.
The country where the victim's ship was registered has nothing to say. International law states that "submarines have no human rights." It's a crime for you to come, and there's nothing you can do about it if others can't hear or see.
Onlookers who focus on the financial field are more concerned about the protection and support of Gu Kun from more international forces reflected in this incident.
As well as the non-market risks that those clowns who want to add trouble to bulls may encounter.
Kong Shangzhong was the first to be scared to death. The bad news about Mitchell Hatcher made him dare not go out for two or three days in a row, fearing that he would not be safe in Xiangjiang and that the club would come and kill him.
After all, not everyone is a legal expert. Even if Mitchell was to blame for his own death, laymen like Kong Shangzhong would inevitably misinterpret it temporarily.
Because a small group of people represented by Kong Shangzhong stayed dormant for a few days, the power of short sellers to make trouble became even weaker. In mid-June, the Hang Seng Index easily broke through 15,000 points, with a slight shock in the middle, which was harmless.
The local short sellers represented by Kong Shangzhong have completely given up on other fantasies of off-market moves, and are just waiting for the crazy sell-off on the final deadline to fight to the death.
Loss is already doomed, the only difference is whether it will be completely lost to bankruptcy and liquidation, or whether it is possible to slightly recover a few costs.
Nowadays, there is no value in protecting the market anymore. Even if it is temporarily broken through 16,000 points for a few days, we can't care about it.
Their only pursuit is to rush back in a short time when futures contracts are allowed to be delivered on July 1, and then immediately rush to close the position - with so many futures contracts, it is actually impossible to close the position at the same time.
So with so many teammates, there will definitely be a problem of running too fast and too slow.
However, at this time, there is no need to worry about so much. Whether you are a dead Taoist friend or a poor Taoist, whoever can escape will be lucky.
Unfortunately, history ultimately proves that even this expectation is just an unrealistic fantasy.
One day in late June, an even bigger piece of news shocked everyone.
"Boss Kong, this is bad! Big news! Huahai Oil announced that it has discovered a shallow-water oil field with reserves of several billion tons in the territorial waters of eastern Lanzhou!"
When Kong Shangzhong heard the bad news recounted by his secretary, he was stunned for a long time and murmured: "This is impossible! This is a trap set by Gu Kun. I heard people from Shell said that Gu Kun wanted to make a fraud! This is
Fake!”
Secretary: "But I heard that China has urgently approved a huge loan to Gu Kun using the reserves of Lanfang Oilfield as collateral. Now Gu Kun's funds are about to explode again."
Kong Shangzhong fainted immediately. Fortunately, the secretary immediately gave him a quick-acting Jiuxin pill.