None the less, it is a massive F up for two US Navy vessels to be lost in the middle of it.

They are sailors in the most powerful naval force on earth and it is inexcusable that despite crews using two navigation systems, they were lost the middle of the most contested waterway on earth.

Skip the legal lesson for a second.

SirUno down thread points out that the US Navy says the boats have no mechanical problems, so it is assumed that the sailors were taking a shortcut away from the approved route.

It is also a violation of law to accidentally invade Iran.

Ok that’s awesome

What about the other gps? There were two boats....or the radar that should have seen the coastline to the west, or the depth finder to find the depth curve, or the compass. Or the dead reckoning plot, or point the hour hand of your watch and halfway between there and noon is south.....

First of all, it wasn’t a short cut, Farsi Island is in the middle of the PG.

Or better yet, they should get on a sailboat and get boarded by the Coasties for a life jacket check., then they would be screaming about their constitutional rights and fourth amendment protection.

Making the female wear appropriate dress for your culture is not mistreating them. For example, we would require a female detainee to cover her breasts, even if the men where shirtless. For the Iranians, a woman’s hair is as sexual as her breasts, and it makes no more and no less sense. It simply is a cultural norm.…

Yeah, I’ve run that exact route dozens of times, and it smelled of complacent BS since I first saw where they were.

Illegal immigrants with GUNS, no less.

When was war declared?

does seem to conflict with international rules

Except, their [navigational] equipment was functioning just fine.

The sailors weren’t prisoners of war, they were illegal immigrants. You can photo them with their hands up or in cuffs and use it for internal propaganda:

Thank you, Tyler. It’s kinda lonely in the ‘sane people club’, innit?

That's ONE of the reasons you are not thrre.

Bullshit. You come into my territorial waters with that type of Boat, I’m going to search you, have you down in Felony Arrest position.