they detained seven individuals, and we're told the whole operation only took around nine minutes, so a very quick operation. an extremely highly proficient professional service, the sbs. very well—known in many parts of the world. we're also told that no members of the crew were hurt during this operation. it was authorised by the home secretary and the defence secretary earlier on this evening at the request of the local police force, hampshire police, and presumably in the intervening hours, that operation was planned and eventually executed this evening. it's not clear what happened with those seven individuals, whether they've since been taken off the tanker and brought ashore or if they're still on board. it all began at 9am local time here when the crew reported there was some kind of confrontation with stowaways who were on board. they knew the stowaways were there, vut for some reason the stowaways, in the words of the crew, became violent towards the crew. which led the crew to take refuge in a special lock—up room on board the ship.