Very true Keith, but they were authorised to be there, and no shots would have been fired at all had the other clowns in inflatables complied with what they were quite rightly told to do.

Lesson learned very early on in life - If you are doing something that you know you shouldn't be doing and somebody with a gun turns up to tell you to cease and desist - it is normally the sensible thing to comply with that request - if you don't and you subsequently get shot then you only have yourself to blame.

The Greenpeace vessel should not have been where it was, the inflatables from the Greenpeace ship should not have been where they were - the personnel on both are now finding out what happens when you kick over the traces in Russian waters - Strikes me as being slightly ignorant and arrogant that anyone can think of going into someone else's backyard to deliberately disrupt perfectly legal operations and cause trouble and then expect them to dance to your tune and play according to your rules. What they did was dangerous and irresponsible - all they have to do now is pick up the tab for it.