Posted on 10/15/2014 9:03:35 PM PDT by naturalman1975
AN EXCLUSION zone has been set up around the Cerberus naval base on the Mornington Peninsula after potentially explosive materials were found in accommodation.
A 400m radius around the Crib Point has been shut off after the discovery in a residential unit.
Police bomb response officers and arson detectives are at the scene.
A Defence member who lives in the unit at the centre of the drama has been arrested.
Victoria Police would not specify the materials found in the unit.
A Defence statement said: “A routine inspection this morning of on-base accommodation in HMAS Cerberus has resulted in hazardous material being located in a residential unit.
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Sounds like someone has been taking souvenirs home from work.
Given our recent increase in terrorism threat levels, I hope that’s all it is.
Oh me too! I'd much rather it was someone who just wanted to collect (dangerous enough) rather than someone who was accumulating for nefarious purposes.
Any particular reason the name Cerberus was chosen? Cerberus is the mythical three headed dog with a serpents tail, who guards the entrance to Hades. Cerberus prevents the dead from escaping and the living from entering. Al Gore and Dan Quayle head a global investment firm, also named Cerberus.
I was really impressed with Australia’s reaction to the intercepted ISIS phone call a few weeks back; they rounded them all up. I doubt we would deal with as well over here, under Obama..
By the late nineteenth century before Australia became a single country, the Australian colonies had all become self-governing semi-independent states (foreign policy was still set from London, as was most defence policy, but they had a considerable degree of self-rule). The colony of Victoria established its own small Navy in this period. One of its ships was the 'Breastwork Monitor' HMVS (Her Majesty's Victorian Ship) Cerberus. She was an ironclad that developed ideas first seen is America's USS Monitor.
HMAS Cerberus was named in honour of HMVS Cerberus.
HMVS Cerberus accompanied by a torpedo boat, c1905.
The wreck of the HMVS Cerberus (now seriously decayed, unfortunately efforts to raise money to save what has left have never succeeded) lies just a few hundreds yards off a beach in Melbourne's Port Phillip where she was sunk as a breakwater.
So that's the name's tradition in Australian service. Before that the name was used in the Royal Navy, but its use started in the days when the RN had so many ships that coming up for names for them was often quite random. I believe that at the time the first HMS Cerberus was commissioned, in the mid 18th century, it was mostly a matter of needing a name that started with 'C' because that's what the RN was doing at the time with her class of frigate.
Well, I thank you for that explanation. I’ve learned more about Australia, our neighbor way down under. Who knows, one more “dy-no-mite’ kind of president like Obumbles, and we may be upstaged not just by China, but by Australia as well, in productivity.
Thank you for explaining and a bit of history!
You folks in Oz are A-1 in my book!
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