On July 12th , a extremity from a pop boat message board posted a picture of some boats he did n’t agnise near Dana Point , a small metropolis on the California seacoast midway between LA and San Diego . Someone respond to the post with speculation that it mightbe the Mexican Navy . And then the cyberspace ’s game of Telephone did its conjuration before a reputable news outlet discover they were actually Navy seal .
Commenters on BoatDesign.net , a popular boating internet forum , speculated that the photo could show the Mexican Navy justfilling upduring a occlusive along the California glide :
Could be CB90 - course debauched assault patrol boats of the Mexican Navy who use them to protect ship and passengers from Acts of the Apostles of terror and terrorism as Mexican and U.S. fatherland security system measures
the great unwashed send photos of like looking boats that were substantiate to be of the Mexican Navy :
The boat indeed looked similar , but not the same . Which is an important distinction when you ’re trying to identify military vehicles of any band .
A few workweek subsequently on August 1st , a website called The Log : California ’s Boating & Fishing News pick up the story , writing thatit was , “ able to confirm both vessels were indeed part of the Mexico Navy fleet , as a few mass on the net guessed . ”
From The Log ( accent mine ):
Nordhavn ’s Justin Zumwalt caught some post - Fourth of July fireworks on the water in South Orange County as a yoke of Mexican Navy stealth vessels visited Dana Point Harbor . These boats might have been moving around out in the open for all to see , but no one really roll in the hay why these vessels were chew the fat Dana Point Harbor in the first shoes .
At least three agencies – O.C. Parks , Orange County Sheriff ’s Department and U.S. Coast Guard – had no information useable as to why these two vessel were in Dana Point , let alone their agency of origin . There were also screw thread online about these two vessels , with some surmise they were actually part of Mexico ’s Navy . Even others pondered whether the Department of Homeland Security found a pair of in-migration enforcement vessels .
The original poster on the boating vane forum even went back and print The Log ’s article in a follow - up say that the boats were indeed from the Mexican Navy . But others on the assembly were n’t so sure .
As it reverse out , the boat news situation was incorrect . The vas were n’t from Mexico , despite their “ confirmation . ” The internet sleuths were misguided and so was The Log . The Orange County Register finally have in touch sensation with someone at the Orange County Sheriff ’s Department who know what they were speak about . The boats were in reality US Navy SEALs .
“ This is the second time they cease in our harbor , ” Sgt . Rich Himmel say theOC Register , speak about the SEALs .
“ If the Mexican Navy were in the harbor , we would be informed forwards of prison term by the Department of Defense or Homeland Security , ” sound out Himmel .
So there you have it : The Mexican Navy invasion that was n’t . For all the talk of crowdsourcing and cyberspace sleuthing being the time to come ( CBS even has a new show with that exact premise calledWisdom of the Crowd ) it turns out gang can be pretty silent . And it ’s a good thing Trump ’s stave did n’t hand him the clause from The Log . He might have tried tobeg Mexicoto let him extend The Wall ™ into the sea .
[ OC RegisterviaStars and Stripes ]
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