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''[[Sea Patrol]]'' is an Australian television series that aired between 2007 and 2011. It focused on the crew of the HMAS ''Hammersley''. The first three seasons had their own [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]] that is slowly revealed over the course of the season, though each episode was more focused on giving one or two crew members their [[A Day in the Limelight|day in the limelight.]] The fourth season ditched the [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]] and just focused on the characters. The fifth season went back to the [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]] of the first three seasons.
The series has been aired in many countries. In the USA it can be found advertised on Amazon Prime though unfortunately unavailable for watching at the present time (Amazon does change-ups in its video line-up like that).
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* [[Awesome Aussie]]:
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Normally Kate but when Mike is given the rare chance he proves that his reputation isn't just talk and Nikki isn't a pushover.
* [[Badass Crew]]
* [[Band of Brothers|Band of Siblings]]
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Kate and Dr Ursula Morrell/Mike and Rick Gallagher/Jim Roth and Mike/ Mike and Dutchy (own choice for which fit)
* [[Big Bad]]:
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* [[Disposable Sex Worker]]: Poor women looking for a better life are force to be this and are the centre of an episode in the 3 season.
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Bird
* [[Double Standard]]: Two-Dads arranges to pair off a drunken RO with a cross-dresser without RO knowing about it until he accidentally feels the ''parts'' while dancing. Two-dads thinks this is somehow a funny practical joke but if something similar was done to a female it would be sexual harassment.
**Averted in another episode. RO is [[Slipping a Mickey|Mickeyed]] on shore leave. This is not funny at all.
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: Poor RO...2Dads is a naughty boy.
* [[The Drunken Sailor]]: Of course there's shore leave but while Buffer and 2Dads took on two dangerous men and won poor RO 'needs' to stay away from the booze. The poor golf cart...
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* [[Embarrassing Tattoo]]: Buffer on a night out decides to get another tattoo and forces Spider to come along and get one himself. Buffer (who's definitely drunk) goes to sleep in the chair while his tattoo is being done. The next day Bomber is tending to the slightly infected tattoo and it becomes clear that it isn't the tattoo Buffer wanted. Bomber corners Spider who admits that he didn't get one then realizes that he messed with Buffer's choice. It turns out that he changed it to a heart with XO in it. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|And the first person Buffer shows it to is the XO]]...Spider is very lucky not to be maimed let alone alive when Buffer is finished with him.
* [[Evil Poacher]]: In ''Under the Radar'' a foreign boat trespasses on the Australian fisheries looking for shark fin and ''only'' shark fin, because of the high price it commands from those who like shark fin soup. But they do not seem to have any intention of harvesting the meat, the leather, or the teeth. They just slice off the fins and drop the shark back in for some other critter to eat.
**Downplayed: most "FFVs" (Foreign Fishing Vessels) are crewed by [[Punch Clock Villain|people looking for a desperate job]], in miserable, unsanitary conditions and must have been doing awful back home to sign on for such a thing.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Most of the nicknames, Chefo is the chef, though he's also the assistant medic, CO is the
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: 2Dads thinks so...
* [[Father Neptune]]: Charge qualifies.
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* [[Going Down with the Ship]]: Poor Swaine nearly has this fate after a bad run in with some diamond smugglers.
* [[Good with Numbers]]: Kate and Nikki are qualified navigators. Charge, ET, 2Dads, Swaine and RO would have to be good at maths to do their jobs. Mike is implied to be but there isn't much reason for his to show it.
* [[Gunboat Diplomacy]]: Less often than you might think although ''Hammersley'' is a boat and has, well, [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Happily Married]]: Swaine
* [[Hero Worshipper]]: 2Dads has some of this to Dutchy in series 4.
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* [[Non Sequitur Thud]]: During the course of her duties, the XO of HMAS ''Hammersley'' was surreptitiously dosed with Rohypnol by a fisherman/murderer. After ''Hammersley'' saves the day, the Captain came down to her cabin to check on her condition; she didn't wake up when he arrived, and he was greeted with "I don't believe in pre-marital soy sauce!"
* [[Not Me This Time]]: 2Dads increasingly suffers this as the series goes on. He does deserve it sometimes though.
* [[Open Secret]]: ET and Nikki's relationship ends up being this. While everyone is more or less a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|shipper on deck]] no one wants them to leave and so they keep quite about it. Mike and Kate are so good that [[it comes as a bit of a surprise when they show that they know about it.
* [[Pastimes Prove Personality]]: Flynn reads ''[[The Odyssey]]'', which is about a clever sea captain.
** RO likes bonsai which is quiet and meticulous.
** ET keeps a pet fish. Nav later keeps it to remind her of him.
* [[Practical Joke]]: In ''Heaven Born Captains'' Spider loses a promotion for stealing a French Flag at a diplomatic party.
**Well it's kind of fair. Her Britainic Majesty's Navy must [[Fridge Brilliance|have dozens of French flags]], shouldn't Her Australian Majesty's Navy keep up? Of course those were acquired under differing circumstances.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Chefo between seasons 1 and 2, and Nav, Spider and Buffer between season 3 and 4, and Bomber between seasons 4 and 5, tough at least Bomber going away was referenced in the season 4 finale.
** Justified in that people in the Navy change boats regularly, just in the course of their careers.
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