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A crewmember on a Chinese trawler uses a grapple hook in an apparent attempt to snag the towed acoustic array of the USNS Impeccable, a military sealift command ocean surveillance ship, in the South China Sea, March 8, 2009. Impeccable was conducting routine survey operations in international waters 75 miles south of Hainan Island when the Chinese vessels approached it.

GRAPPLE HOOK

A crewmember on a Chinese trawler uses a grapple hook in an apparent attempt to snag the towed acoustic array of the USNS Impeccable, a military sealift command ocean surveillance ship, in the South China Sea, March 8, 2009. Impeccable was conducting routine survey operations in international waters 75 miles south of Hainan Island when the Chinese vessels approached it.

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