Originally Posted by henra
Originally Posted by sooty655
Perhaps the Chinese heard through the search grapevine that Ocean Shield was picking up (and trying to verify) recorder pulses, but had not yet gone public. Maybe they decided to claim a first for their own public relations reasons.
But why would they then report a Position that is >300NM away from Ocean Shield's?
The report was released to Chinese media via their media contingent on the Nan Hai Jiu, so they could only use the position they were in. They could hardly claim a >600NM round trip for their RIB.