The Tragic Story Of The Greenpeace Ship That Was Blown Up
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Aukland Harbour, New Zealand. July 10th 1985. French navy combat men place two mines against the hull of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior. At ten minutes to midnight, the bombs explode, sinking the ship and killing photographer Fernando Pereira.
The French government is desperate to hide the truth. The truth about the bombing. The truth about nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific ocean. So desperate it will go to any lengths to silence its opponents.
The Boat and The Bomb is a Greenpeace International film about international espionage, government cover-up and the nuclear arms race. It's a story which has disturbing parallels with today's War on Terror. It's a story which won't go away.
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Germans: We sunk the Hood.
English: We sunk the Bismarck.
French : We sunk the Rainbow Warrior.
......and half of our own navy!
Bismarck was scuttled
@@krugerfuchs the result is the same ;)
@@krugerfuchs No it wasn't. You are thinking of KMS Admiral Graf Spee.
@@peace-now The destruction of Hood spurred a relentless pursuit by the Royal Navy involving dozens of warships. Two days later, heading for occupied France to effect repairs, Bismarck was attacked by 16 Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal; one scored a hit that rendered the battleship's steering gear inoperable. In her final battle the following morning, the already-crippled Bismarck was engaged by two British battleships and two heavy cruisers, and sustained incapacitating damage and heavy loss of life. The ship was scuttled to prevent her being boarded by the British, and to allow the ship to be abandoned so as to limit further casualties. Most experts agree that the battle damage would have caused her to sink eventually. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck
On May 26, the ship was sighted and crippled by British aircraft, and on May 27 three British warships descended on the Bismarck, inflicting heavy damage. By mid-morning, the pride of the German navy had become a floating wreck with numerous fires aboard, unable to steer and with her guns almost useless because she was listing badly to port. Soon, the command went out to scuttle the ship, and the Bismarck quickly sank. Of a 2,221-man crew, only 115 survived. www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bismarck-sunk-by-royal-navy
Also verified by James Camerons dive team who studied the wreck of the Bismarck in great detail and said, "For the ship to have sunk with the speed that it did, it would have had to have also had scuttling, in addition to whatever battle damage was being inflicted by the British, and probably the scuttling played a very large part when it sank".
So the French claim they didn't want to hurt anyone, yet placed bombs on a ship they had under surveillance, and detonated them with people on board.
On their allies territory
nuclear testing is insane within itself
The French didn't claim they were competent at the tast.
Sounds like an act of terrorism to me
@@vrdaddy2667 state sponsored terrorism
Remembering Greenpeace, and others who tried to save the World. They made a difference
They tried to stop nuclear energy despite being very clean and reliable, leading to EU nations being dependant on russian natural gas. They tried stopping golden rice because it's GMO, despite GMO using significantly less pesticide, and in that particular case provided much needed vitamin A to a sub Saharan diet which lacks vitamin A leading to numerous diseases. They go against scientific consensus on these matter and actively hurt people. I'm glad this happened and one of them paid the price
They are just terrorist.
What difference did they make 😂😂😂😂
The annoying part is it's taken everyone else so long to Wake-Up to the needs of the Planet, which include us!
While I disagree with some of their activities, the French government committed murder!
No, is based
I remember the incidents in the 80s. They shaped my view that it's not enough to sit passively by, whilst politicians, corporations, and the ultra wealthy use our planet only to enrich their own selfish lives.
This is so true their evil. And people think they save them!
They're already enriched, they're viciously competing for control now...
I agree. I like Capitalism on the whole, but I do see that it has some BIG downsides that can't be overlooked. And I hate elitism.
@@pigpentaboo agreed, the beautiful parts of our country also were the weaknesses that opened us up for this hostile takeover of the infrastructure and direction of the country. I think the only way to combat this is an informed public, and I think with the internet it is possible. The elites who direct things nows predecessor's were held at bay in the early 1900s by an informed populace, one good example is them keeping central banking out for quite awhile. Eventually the public became less informed and more frenzied based on introduced catastrophes and they snuck it through the back door in the form of the federal reserve.
Shame they missed the air pollution from chem trails. Their effects are damaging the ozone and directly speeding up the arctic warming. Then and now. Look at your local wild edible berries etc. They are disappearing under the name of progress, neat lawns and tarmac.
Governments do what governments do best look after there own interests.
Governments are socially accepted mobs of thieves and vagabonds
Wanna know the exact definition of double standards..?
Switch the “French” for “Russians”... and just imagine the level of hysteria 🤷♂️
@@splifstar85 🤣 now that would be interesting.
The loss of a future life with your dad is really the saddest part of this story.
The hippie navy 💋
You're harshing my mellow!
Up yours.
Actually what makes them scary, from Greenpeace to Sea Shepard.... they actually have some of the world's most experienced Mariners. Lots of ex military.... including special forced, seals, and rangers.
Even back then.... hence France did this.
@@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
@@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence No they don't, ever watch Whale Wars?
How can you say you had a rule that no one should die you set a bomb off and you killed someone
Imperfect execution.
They could have blown up the ship in deep ocean if they wanted to kil everyone without a trace.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Ignace_Guillotin
he was a Doctor and Expert........
Is this like one of the earliest recorded cases of regressive left-wing talking points
The French lost their cool, though I’m afraid they never really had it to begin with. They could have taken control of the Rainbow Warrior with minimal force (not assaulting the crew) and impounded it while arresting or detaining the crew until the test was over. That never seemed to cross their mind and I believe it because the state has a monopoly on violence, the state therefore turns to violence habitually to solve its perceived problems. The whole thing is a lesson in how sick this world is.
The whole thing was due to the then new boss of French secret services, who wanted to prove himself, after a failed retaliatory operation by the last boss of the secret services, following the bombings that killed more than 300 US Marines and 50 French paratroopers in Beirut. He ended up launching this operation in the very back of the French government. The only one who knew about it was the one who gave permission for it, the then defence minister and he did it in the back of the whole government: the president, the prime minister, no one knew about it.
They talk about it in this 3rd episode on the history of the French secret services since WW2 (you can add English subtitles in the options):
ruclips.net/video/AKu8ZLVkYmE/видео.htmlsi=V1Ob0lnl7yDuW6aj
Re the last comment on this video : 50 years ago a Breton friend told me that the French have no scruples about doing something wrong and are only sorry when they are caught.
Applies to every countries I think.
8 mill to GP, 13 mill to NZ, how much went to the family of the man who was murdered?
So...France goes to war against greenpeace...dirty hippies in a raggedy old boat...And the French still manage to loose. I give up. **Insert every french military joke ever**
Q. How do you say "Give me liberty or give me death!" in French?
A. I give up.
Q: How do you defeat France?
A: You threaten them!
Sacrebleu!
Anyone want to buy a French rifle? Never been fired, only dropped twice.
You spelt lose wrong.
Very interesting documentary. I thought this was about the British ww2 operation that rammed a bomb packed ship into a German occupied french port. Pleasantly surprised by this.
The St. Nazaire Raid. That's another amazing story.
ruclips.net/video/nXusKM5uX0s/видео.html
In may this year I attended the Oostende Voor Anker boat festival as part of the Dunkirk Little Ship fleet. On the 10 May we attended a ceremony commemorating 100 year since HMS Vindictive blocked the harbour in WWI. This stopped German submarines leaving port, for years I passed the Bow of the ship as I locked in but did not know the history behind it. The bow has been moved to a position in the outer harbour and a jetty built to it.
The British Ambassador attended the ceremony together with the British Legion and many Belgian dignitaries, we later entertained the British Legion guys aboard the DLS and listened to some great stories that got better as the grog flowed.
I wonder can you give me details of the WWII operation you were talking of.
You mean the HMS Campbell being used as a bomb to destroy a dock at St. Nazaire to reduce Kriegsmarine effectiveness on the high seas? Pretty daring ops.
That's because anything to do with left-wingers the sensationalism always gets turned up to 11.
So the title of the video makes it sound like the ship full of people was blasted with exocet missiles and sunk in the middle of the ocean.
In reality it was a covert sabotage operation that was meant to cripple the ship when they accidentally took out a guy.
The titel is clear... greenpeace... they did´t exist in ww2
Lange is regarded as one of the best Prime Ministers New Zealand has ever had. He was certainly the most gifted orator and even though he was handed a no win situation, I can't help but feel he dropped the ball on this. Just a little.
New Zealand has always been an easy target. It's sad to think that our only two recognized acts of terrorism have been carried out by a citizen of a military ally, and the secret service of a friendly government.
You mean the one term pm?
That's almost every terrorist attack lol
What was the other incident? Id like to look into that as well.
@@jaseswinconos The 2019 Christchurch shootings. An Australian terrorist killed 51 Muslim people in mosques in Christchurch.
@@pigpentaboo were there any ties to the Australian government? Do any channels have any solid coverage of it you know of? Very interesting.
Should of let the Germans have France the first time round.
I don't understand why they didn't just sink them in open waters.
Because then they would have killed everyone on board. Which wasnt their goal
Taking the time to appreciate the music for this production. it is fresh, edgy and moving.
Sails around the world looking for trouble and finds it. Amazing 👏
Bunch of stoned fools 😅
Murder is murder
@@benwilson6145 stupid is stupid
@@benwilson6145 unless it's an abortion, right?
That’ll teach those green terrorist. Go become Amish if you want to be a rainbow warrior
I was 8 years old when this happened. I still have a photo of me sitting on a warf next to the bombed rainbow warrior.
Can we see your picture
@@chestercrow1440 ill have a look for it this week, its at my parents place.
Mururoa...Where the French ignored Nuclear treaties and blew up a bomb so big it cracked the crust under the atoll-way to go France.
Why don't they have weapons in International waters , those French would have been picked off one by one before it got near my ship , I know everyone will say they are Green Peace , but still allowed to defend your self.
Because you would've been blown up by an exocet missle.
@@bepishepus3506 That's what I am talking a bout ! What an exit...
Thatcher was furious.
What was N.Z. response to this act of war in her jurisdiction?
Given the inherent danger of nuclear power and the cost and difficulty of building and staffing such stations and the necessity of strategic and tactical deterrence and flexible usability of small 0.5-50k nuclear weapons (UK tactical weapons say 1965-95 were interchangable 0:5-10k nuclear depth charges also usable as free fall 5-10k bombs. Smaller not clear powers like Britain and France were inevitably ultra sensitive to any challenge to their great power military, diplomatic, UN and tech status of any challenge to the power and status conferred by nuclear.Thatcher and France like the US also saw NZ as incredibly hypocritical as NZs only real defence force and contribution was the high level nuclear submarine hunting Orion's and Rothesay and Leander frigates which were designed by the US/UK as second line nuclear deterrence platforms and in most UK US applications were nuclear wired and operated as part of nuclear defence systems with interoperable sensor.s and weapons. Even the RNZAFs earlier Canberra's and A-4s were designed as pure nuclear non conventional bombers
My heart bleeds for her, not. Testing nuclear weapons? Why, did they think that they might not work? These weapons could well end the planet and it’s the protesters are in the wrong, this is the insanity of human greed.
Are you stupid? Thatcher had no jurisdiction, no control, no say nothing, not a single thing to do with the sovereign nation of which I am a proud citizen.
If indeed the NZ government received 30 million it would seem they were bribed by the French.
@@antipropo461 Well said Kiwi.
As a born and bred New Zealander whose family members fought for the liberation of France in WW2 ...I believe the French people involved in this should still be in jail in NZ today. They should be ashamed of themselves along with whoever let them out of prison.
I totally agree. Everyone involved should have been jailed, and should still be there. It was later revealed that Pierre Lacoste (then head of the DGSE) had personally gotten approval from then President Mitterand. Lacoste and Mitterand should have been in jail too. They're both dead now, but they should both have spent their final years in jail for murder.
@@Luubelaar No, not Mitterand. Mitterand was not that responsible for this and he did a lot for France.
@@thecaynuck4694 Mitterand has been discovered to be the one who gave the order
NZ should be giving them medals
@@pepebeezon772 giving them medals ? For what?
I have nothing but huge respect for these people that displayed incredible courage and conviction to serve the inhabitants of this world.
I don't think everyone considers those French divers in that way.
@@davedavid2277 you’re an idiot
Why do the French hate kiwi fruit? Because they hate the green piece.
Dimwit!
Hahahahahhaha..🤣🤣
That’s actually gold 😂
I wasn't even born yet and I still haven't forgiven the French for this
Parks near atol: So what? International waters! Gets kicked in the balls: International waters.
BEWARE 7min in animal cruelty, wish I could unsee that.
They left out that the rainbow warrior tried ramming a French navy ship a few weeks before this
Why were French navy ships in New Zealand waters? Why were they placing bombs. If they had done this to the usa they would have declared war…
War is all over? Yeah right!
The Rainbow Trout... RIP.
edgy
Nice docu but a same of the amount of ads that youtube puts on it, it made it worse than watching commercial tv
adblocker,
@@lazystalker1 if i try to open in a browser it goes automatically to the app on my phone😐
Yea Greenpeace still brings it..or they wouldnt fill it with adds..right? Either that or dont have the backing anymore to pay for thier own shows..idk..
I highly recommend Premium. No ads plus you get YT Music which is basically Spotify and you can keep listening on your phone even if the screen is off.
@@BrodyYYC if they make internet for free i dont mind paying for premium
But im not going to pay 50 euro a month for internet and than and dont know how many extras for RUclips netflix prime etc.
Crimes of the government are hardly ever punished.
I would never trust the French period
@@Roscoe.P.Coldchain Not all French are bad.
Ahh yes, Greenpeace, the Karen of the seas.
Better than being a cynical troll on the internet.
Why’d they have to do that to the seal though
You have right until the government decides you don't
No matter the "cause", to take a life I would never support
That photographers daughter is quite tidy...
Her moustache looks like her Dad's!
@@bremayak he gets it ha
Citroens were vandalized in the streets, Le tan and Le Specs advertisements were removed from the telly and the French embassy was paint and baguette bombed . . oh those were the days . . .
The US Navy was not using F4s in the Gulf in 1988.
Yeah, it's a tale of woe. Very stirring
I wonder if the frogs would drop their bombs as quickly as they drop their weapons everytime they were invaded. Could be bad for everyone.
JW: The French defended themselves to the utmost during both world wars. Only the childish and ignorant claim otherwise. Grow up and read some history.
We only have one planet / and were living on it.
"bomb it!"
Considering what climate “activists” are doing now, France may need to do this again
Your disgusting!
So sad for Marelle and family. I hope they take some comfort from the fact her father helped changethe World. Actually changed it. With Love.
They will find no comfort in there father "changethe the world" bc this means absolutely nothing.
So painfull to watch.
If only they taught about state sponsored murder in school to kids.
Filipino watching from KSA,
That myst be fun.... 😉
Ugh, humans.
We are the apex species
God bless you all. There's nothing but evil in earths high and mighty places .
Green "peace" on the ship Rainbow "Warrior". Just doesn't sit right with me. They looked for conflict and they found it.
Did France ever issue an official apology after the second illegal boarding? Does Greenpeace still protest nuclear test by all countries? Great video. I've heard small bits before, but never the full story.
No
There’s the test ban treaty now.
Why should they apologize, they should host a celebration every year for it
@@pepebeezon772wtf?
Probably should've included some kinda trigger warning before showing the clip of the seal getting its brains bashed in. I didn't think a video about a ship being blown up would be child friendly but jheeze
Just a girl back then I couldn't recall a time I was so proud to be Kiwi, even more so when France sent its killers to bomb a protest boat catapulting a small but vocal country at the bottom of the world onto the world stage. NZ, to this day proudly and fiercely remains a nuclear free zone.
Which is too bad, because nuclear energy is clean.
@@nightshadehelis9821we’ve got plenty of wind and geothermal resources, nuclear reactors are completely unnecessary and dangerous, if Taupo explodes or a big earthquake happens we don’t need radioactive fallout to add on top of it.
Timeline, You spelled Auckland wrong in the description, but other than that great upload.
Nowadays there are individuals as well as organizations that put millions a year into fixing the damage done by other humans..dont need to do these kinda "missions" anymore with the tech u can buy to monitor big brother from a distance..
Jesus. Am I watching ads or a documentary.
I do not believe a word that Greenpeace
What is really arrogant is the French threathing New Zealand with an Embargo etc to intimidate New Zealand et al,,......and obvisously the financial ramafictions caused bye these threats in order to have there Agents realleased...
My heart goes out to the family of the murdered crew member and the people of New Zealand who were threatened by France.
I doubt if those involved with the bombing even give it a second thought. Cruel. Senseless and heartless.
dont commit piracy if you dont want to get exploded
@@thecoolestofthe834s2SO, you know nothing about piracy then?
@@thecoolestofthe834s2”red dead playlist” w/ FO-NV cover photo. I can tell based off of that alone that you’re way too immature to be taken seriously in anything regarding international politics ☠️☠️☠️
Toot Toot all aboard the S.S. beatnik
Never forget!
Its not greed that motivates conspiracies!
Or even the super rich.
It is sadistic violence as an end in itself.
The powerful love to be vicious.
It's their only respite from banality of evil.
Learn something new everyday
I'm curious if France ever apologized for the bombing, for illegally boarding the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior twice? So, I emailed the French embassy and asked them. We'll see what they say, if anything at all. I predict, no reply at all. Lockjaw.
France has to this day, refused to admit that the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl passed over their borders. Their right wing are the orginal kings of denial.
I don't have a dog in this fight as I despise both the frogs and hippies.
A act of war, and no sanctions.
No one is shocked that the guy just killed the poor sea lion?! :(
I mean.... Greenpeace was there to stop seal clubbing... so, No.
Go watch
"Sea of slaughter"
They make good boots
Gosh as an American I just take the term "exclusion zone" to mean do not enter.. That rigging worked? Man I just cannot get enough of you hippy types... Go get em
@@kaz1015 Oh homicide means a great deal to me too!anyway Kaz and i think i speak for everyone who agrees to live in civil society on the entire globe. Law and order and on a greater level MANNERS are imperative, As fer guys bombing a boat and killing a guy. Thats homicide. I merely want it pointed out that wether i like what anyone is doing or not I don't get to choose what rules are righteous. grrenpeace seems way cool putting people in harms way.. Are they culpable? I know who I am and I know who I try to help succeed peacefully. As for you're suggestion of staying home.. I will live however I see fit ok. Cheers from Santa Cruz Ca. Go fight the good fight mr morality!
I remember in the 90's Greenpeace sank a whaling ship on an island next to the one I grew up at in Norway, so they don't get much sympathy from me honestly. I still eat the meat from the mink whales that we hunt here with strict quotas, knowing the ocean need to be harvested with sense and no animals or fish are more worth then another. What really make my blood boil is watching how they make whales and other wild, arctic animals into circus entertainment. I can't think of worse abuse for killer whales, with their fins getting destroyed in captivity, locked inside a prison, when they belong in a wonderful, endless ocean.
So many evil people back then, and most of us didn't do a thing about it.
@CRAM MARC Well, today it's different. There's much greater coverage and it's far harder for governments to hide things. But I talk about the environment all the time with my kids.
We were very active in protests and environmental campaigns even as children
Those were crazy times, I was a child then, but I remember how Greenpeace would climb factories, block castor transports, risk their lives by steering their zodiacs between whales and harpoons and trying to prevent tests of atomic bombs by sneaking into the territorial waters of the islands on which the tests were planned. They were our heroes, and we were heartbroken when we heard the news about the Rainbow Warrior and that a photographer had been killed.
Look u can't poke bears if u do dnt be supprized when u get bitten
The British, The United States,The UN and the EU never condemned France for it's action.
France is now my favorite country!
Is there some rule that states if you have hippy thoughts then you need to look homeless???
If so I’m screwed and need to stop showering now before I’m seen by the hippy police.
Ur so cool
@@monkmoto1887 I’ve always tried to stay a distance away from “cool” since it tends to incorporate traits I can’t stand in others, but since my sarcasm-meter is dinging and the patronizing plane is ready for take off, I don’t think the former half of my statement was necessary but I love mind games. Especially with people who can’t bother with the time it takes to use three full words without abbreviating two of them or that ultimately can’t muster the extra brain cell it takes to cognitively capture and retain what a typical 6 year old can.
Either way... thank you. 😁
Look, you are right. Every time I see people like this, it's like they adhere to some hippie/beatnik uniform regulations or something.
@@glennhubbard5008 exactly. The whole thing, to me, is an ideal and, if implemented, a way of being. Not a dress code and fashion sense.
Great video, but so many commercials that it's almost unwatchable
David Lange is a legend
Do you know why?
quite why the french needed 200 tests is a sign they were struggling to produce a viable system. by comparison the british detonated just a handful to produce a far more advanced system than the usa on a shoestring budget and back in the 1950s though obviously the usa out spent them on launch vehicles and the brits could never match that spending. another possibility is that the french also testing weapons for israel. historically they got dassault to develop their missile launch system without even the french government knowing! their nuclear material came from south africa. wiki the samson option.
Roland Lawrence so much BS it’s laughable 🤣
the only thing thats "tragic" about this is they didnt use enough explosives
Wtf was he doing to that seal¿?
Killing it for its skin.
A bomb they name Bravo? Doesn't sound like much for cheering about.
Yeah. The U.S sure screwed Bikini. They'd be the country I'd trust least.
by who should also have been in the titles.
Bro it still is a nuclear free zone 💀
So pathetic, these people just want the oceans to be free and clean, what kind of evil exists that can possibly want to destroy a symbol of our best asset as human beings, the ocean is our world, literally, I tip my hat to all who represent the preservation of our oceans, RIP🙏
How ironic....my viewing is inundated with fekn FRENCH commercials!
Manger mon poche!
The French can't even run a covert operation properly.
Greenpeace: Of course you’re getting boarded by the military, you’re in french waters and in a military exclusion zone. Your pictures and videos of the boarding + your “I am a victim” attitude just proves again what you are: a bunch of hooligans with no respect for any law, be it international or national. Your message would be heard and appreciated more if you did things according to law.
Had you try to disrupt the US tests you probably wouldn’t be alive or be jailed for a very long time.
Lol you’re basically saying that photographer deserved to die. No wonder you nationalist, WASP, seppos are the laughing stock of the world.
@@HotEatTheFood atheist actually, not W A S or P, or french but agrees with everything he said. He does deserve it
@@HotEatTheFood also you do realize that a WASP can't be a french nationalist right?
Disgusting! The french atomic tests were legal only because THEY wrote the laws in their favour! They poisoned an entire ecosystem and an entire people live with their criminal legacy to this day.
Hey Bruno who's the shoes taste huh, seems it very common u do it.
Dear Green Peace, If you have guts, fight big business houses, Businessmen, Industrialists, etc... not hunters and fishermen!
And look what happened when they fought the French government, their ship got blown up.
@@bepishepus3506 Yes sir, you are right..
They (Green Peace) need to understand, my point is the real threat is mass industraliazation & mass civilization, which is really ruining the earth!
I am not at all against nature or animals, but hunters have no role to play what so ever in this!
Neuclear plants/ mass industraliazation/ mass civilization/ international wars are to be blamed.
Mankind has been filling it's stomach since the ages of hunter-gatherer neanderthals, but they (modern 'we' like them) are not threat to the nature at all..
Some humans on this planet care deeply about it....some humans on this planet just want to make more money for themselves with no care or concern for the consequences of their actions. I'm hoping there are more who care than don't.
Not sure what's tragic about this..🤷♂️
30:08.... The French arrogant, nahhhh never heard of such a thing lol
Don't understand why France sent so many people the divers on the yacht would have been enough just swim in plant the bombs back to the yacht and sail away without anyone the wiser
I didn't know about this.
This was the worst terrorist act in NZ, not the chch shooting. This was done by a government that we had fought for.
It is outrageous and unacceptable what the French did, and even more horrible and unbelievable that Thatcher didn't back NZ, instead keeping quiet. And to think we're still part of the commonwealth and trading partners with France.
I love this story.
incredible
In some senses during their anti nuclear operational patrol in French eyes the NZ frigates flying the the RNZN battle ensign and engaged in outright electronic warfare with French P-2 Neptunes had in a sense declared war against France and arguably greatly lessesned the scale of the final atmospheric French tests to a couple of triggers. In 1973 the French Neptunes were in 1973 as well equipped as the USN/RAAF Orions (Australia second a/s surveillance squadron operated Neptunes until 1982 the year Argentine flew its own Neptune, Trackers and Sea KIngs against the Task Force). According to Norman Polmars book on the US Nuclear Navy 2016 the Argentine P-2 Neptunes were percieved by the RN as the most dangerous threat to the RN with the two 209 subs. The French government claimed in 1985 that the actions of the NZ Kirk Government and the NZ Navy in sending its frigates into the bomb test, outer exclusion zone , as a protest, presence and disruption of the French governments montioring of the area and its control with sophisticated surveillance and anti sub aircraft. This New Zealand navy activity was one of the 'provocations' was led the French Government to send its Navy and intelligence service to mine the Greepeace vesel Rainbow warrior in Auckland harbour in 1985 ( M. King . NZ since 1945. Hodder & Stoughton. 1988 Auckland). It would also have to be defined as a naval attack on NZ and it's foreign policy. This mission put 11-49 French agents into NZ and nuclear submarines were deployed in NZ waters probably in an attempt to rescue the captured French naval agents (' Beat to the Beehive' 'Ross Meurant, former National MP, NZ police detective) . Meurant made the point the NZ Government and PM David Lange did anything but, point out to New Zealanders the scale and outrageous big stick the French, were waving at disarmed New Zealnd, with some support from Thatcher and Reagan in the months following the mining of the Rainbow Warrior. The French admitted to 11 agents in NZ. according to retiried NZ poltical scientist Keith Ovenden who was living in France at the time , and covering the issue for some intenational media in 1985, the French actually put 49 agents into New Zealand at the time.