Australian Navy Divers Sustain Minor Injuries from Chinese Destroyer Sonar Pulses in Japan’s EEC

According to the Australian Minister of Defense today, on November 14th, the HMAS Toowoomba ANZAC class frigate had an "unsafe and unprofessional" interaction with a Chinese PLA-N destroyer, claimed to be DD-139 Ningbo, in Japan's EEC during Australian naval operations "in support of a United nations sanctions enforcement" where they had "stopped to conduct diving operations in order to clear fishing nets entangled around its propellers" while enroute to a scheduled port visit. They say that the Chinese destroyer had used hull-mounted sonar to pulse their divers while they were underwater despite the vessel acknowledging Toowomba communications about the dive which resulted in Royal Australian Navy divers attached to the frigate sustaining minor injuries.