Looking like a camouflaged torpedo boat or midget submarine mother ship , this strange craft has been moored off Magnetic Island for weeks , nobody from the media noticing . With powerful binoculars, the alert coast watching Shipping Reporter , the only one north of Albany, Western Australia, has kept the suspicious vessel under round the clock surveillance .
Tuned into their radio frequency , he discovered that the crew is pretending to repair the power cable running from the mainland to Magnetic Island . It bears the deceptive letters PMG in several places on the hull, put there to deceive islanders into believing that it is the Post Master General , an archaic title , out on a big game fishing trip .
Our well informed waterfront reporter declares there is no problem with the present underwater cable as it is in first class condition - like the above warning sign not to drop anchor near the cable . It makes powerful reading in Swahili and braille .
