Australian navy ship accidentally blocks internet and radio across parts of New Zealand

Had a port call back in the day with an Aussie ship and a Russian sub.

Long story, but it was kind of coordinated and they cut us all loose in Florida for a weekend as some kind of good will thing. (Basically a mini fleet week)

The first day when we walked down the pier there was a guy who took a lawn chair and a cooler to the very top of the Aussie ship and the guy just got wasted up there till we came back and hurled kind hearted insults at us for not being able to stay out later and keep drinking.

So the next day we asked the Aussies what the fuck was going on with that dude...

Apparently he was the captain of their ship, and just did shit like that.

As HMAS Canberra was passing along New Zealand’s coast on its approach to Wellington, its navigation radar interfered with wireless and radio signals over a large area spanning Taranaki in the North Island to the Marlborough region in the South Isla