When Watkins woke up the next day, his breakdown of the accident was causing a stir worldwide. “While DND doesn’t put out a press release saying, ‘Today a Canadian ship moved through the Bosphorus Straits into the Black Sea,’ the Russians know, the Iranians know, the Chinese know. He says his obsession started with an interest in the Cold War and the many military outposts in Canada during that period. The information broadcast by transponders often doesn’t identify a ship’s name or location, so more detective work is required. It is overblown, and it doesn’t make any senseWatkins suspects the ship is looking for uncharted U.S. military cables and sensors, gathering information that might be used in future.

Source: National Post April 15, 2018 19:52 UTC