to ta ke minutes it took four special forces to take control of the vessel? good morning, yes, essentially, as you saw, this was a helicopter assault with the two navy wildcat helicopters which would have come in first to look through their electrooptics devices what was going on. they would have provided a distraction while the two navy merlin helicopters came in closer and essentially the sbs troops roped down from those helicopters onto the deck. they would have quickly ascertained where the stowaways were, isolated them and arrested them. simple as that, job done? that's how you want it to be, to tell you the truth. and everybody is safe which is the main thing. absolutely. in that sense, it is a perfect operation, nobody got hurt, the ship was retaken and it was not able to be a problem for the government or the local area any more. how often would special forces