Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the Otter Belly in London, South Bank.
My name is Dan Schreiber, and please welcome to the stage it is Anna Chasimsky,
Andrew and once again we have gathered around the table with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go,
starting with my fact this week.
The way to defeat the British Royal Navy's most advanced destroyer ship is to put it in warm water.
So the British have spent a billion on six massive destroyer ships.
These are ships that in their press release said this is the most advanced technology.
These are the most advanced ships of all time going into the oceans.
It turns out that their engines can't take warm water.
And so if they go to the Persian Gulf, for example, the whole ship just breaks, it just completely breaks.
Why would we ever want to go to the Persian Gulf?
It's dangerous there.
We should just start wars in Iceland.
The defence was that they weren't anticipating having to go somewhere like the Gulf.
So John Hunson, who's a managing director of BAE Systems said,
the operating profile at the time was that there would not be continuous operations in the Gulf.
So that was just out of the question at the time that we'd end up there.
So yeah, they didn't expect to have to go anywhere.
There was a response from the MOD.