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''[[Sea Patrol]]'' is an Australian television series focusingthat aired between 2007 and 2011. It focused on the crew of the HMAS ''Hammersley''. The first three seasons havehad 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 Thethe Limelight|day in the limelight.]] The fourth season ditched the [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]] and just focused on the characters. The fifth season, which is currently airing and the final season, has gonewent back to the [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]] of the first three seasons. Has been aired in many countries though not in the USA

* [[Action Girl]]: Kate and Bomber qualify, Nikki rarely sees action but never lets anyone down and Bird can be generiouslygenerously described as too young and inexperienced to be one.

* [[Alone Withwith the Psycho]]: Red Sky.

* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]: Mike has this problem one in a while. The job gets done but it's clear that the crew rarlyrarely agree with him when it happens.

** SeaaonSeason 3: Campbell Fulton,

* [[Big Eater]]: Charge mostly though he occationlyoccasionally fights 2Dads for the muffins.

* [[Boarding Party]]: Since they enforcing AustrailianAustralian law this happens once an episode. Rarely does it go smoothysmoothly...

* [[Brains and Brawn]]: On the outside the officers and NCO but the officers can hold their own in a fight and many of the NCO (particularyparticularly ET, Charge, Swaine and 2Dads) clearly could out do them in their fields.

* [[The Chains of Commanding]]: Mike and Kate suffer from this when something goes wrong and there's time think about it occationlyoccasionally.

* [[Chickification]]: Averted. While the women do have moments of weakness it's justified and useallyusually they recuse themselvethemselves or hold off till help comes.

** [[The Security Officer]]: Bosuns Pete 'Buffer' Tomaszewski and Dylan 'Dutchy' Mulholland best qualify

* [[Curse]]: The ship suffers one in the first season when Thor, their mascot, is stolen while they're in port. As a result;:

** Had to swollowswallow their pride and leave their mascot in the Kingston's arms even though they've put Thor in pink hotpants and waving it right under their noses.

** The refiagtorrefrigerator stops working.

** A boredingboarding mission goes badly.

** Mike and the Hammersley part in understanding the jigsaw plot hits a hard stummblingstumbling block.

* [[Curse Escape Clause]]: Which involves getting back their mascot, stealing the other ship's mascot (of the crew that stole their'stheirs) and Buffer dressing up as Neptune to give a offering to appease the sea.

* [[Death Byby Childbirth]]: An Chinese illegal immagriatimmigrant dies on 'Hammersley' however there were clear reasons for this and the baby survive.

* [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]]: Bird

* [[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 booozebooze. The poor golf buggiecart...

* [[Embarrassing Tattoo]]: Buffer on a night out descidesdecides to get another tattoo and forces Spider to come along and get one himself. Buffer (who's definallydefinitely drunk) goes to sleep in the chair while his tattoo is being done. The next day Bomber is teadingtending to the slightly infetedinfected tattoo and it becomes clear that it isn't the tattoo Buffer wanted. Bomber concerscorners Spider who admits that he didn't get one then reliasesrealizes that he messed with Buffer's choice. It turns out that he changed it to a heart with XO in it. [[Crowning MomentsofMoment of Funny|And the first person Buffer shows it to is the XO]]...Spider is very lucky not to be mainedmaimed let alone alive when Buffer is finished with him.

* [[Going Down Withwith the Ship]]: Poor Swaine nearly has this fate after a bad run in with some diamond smulggerssmugglers.

* [[Good Withwith Numbers]]: Kate and Nikki are qualified navergatorsnavigators. 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.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: It's an Australian show this was always going to come up.

* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: A few times when an army man appears or once when the crew found weapons stolen from an army base but there is a problem with the [[FEFEDs Ds]]every everynownow and again, while the crew isn't blameless there are one or two moments when the plot wouldn't have happened if the [[FE Ds]]FEDs had just warned 'Hammersley' something would happening in the area.

* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: RO, 2Dads, Mike and Dutchy are the most glaring.

* [[Love Martyr]]: While he does love her, and it's not a one way street, some of the things Mike pulls on Kate feel like this though it's subverted by Kate knowing this and NOT''not'' being happy with it and she calls him out when it gets too far.

* [[Makes SenceSense Inin Context]]: Some of the nicknames such as 2Dads which is because his surname is a double barrel Kosov-Meyer. Bomber is traditionally given to people with the surname Brown in the navy, sources differ on the origin.

* [[Malicious Slander]]: 2Dads spreads a rumour about Kate and Buffer being in a secret relationship after a (deservedly) harsh dressing down. Mike nearly physically throws him off the boat and Kate and Buffer make him retrieve peralspearls that a thief had shallowedswallowed.

* [[New Meat]]/Ensign Newbie|[[Ensign Newbie]]: Spider and Bird though Spider found himself coming in for more than Bird because he wasn't a she and pretty. Both are very gullible though, to everyone's delight.

* [[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 surpisesurprise when they show that they know about it.

* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: Characters leaving the show at the end of most seasons unexplainedlywithout explanation, which happens on real boats all the time.

* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: The characters were only [[Put Onon a Bus]] because the actors didn't want to come back to the show.

* [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses]]: Averted the women are as femeninefeminine as they would be and wear dessesdresses off the ship, eye the candy eye men and have realistic converastionsconversations between themselves.

* [[Screaming Birth]]: This happens in the penutunantpenultimate episode of the first season. She give plenty of abruseabuse to the father as well.

* [[Taking the Heat]]: 2Dads in an incident with a baby cocodailcrocodile.

* [[Team Dad]]: Split between Mike, Charge and Swaine. Mike is the authortyauthority figure, Charge the fun caring one and Swaine the sort of big brother.

** Zigged Zig-zagged between the other ladies when paired with each other. Bomber despite being the cheif generally comes off as the Tomboy however.

* [[Traumatic C -Section]]: Though the mother was dead Swaine is haunted by doing this.

* [[True Companions]]: Very strong crew and even when new troblemakerstroublemakers **cough**2Dads**cough** get into trouble they are saved.

* [[Uptight Loves Wild]]: A mild example with Mike and Kate. He more laid back, happy to socialise and inclindedinclined to take risks while Kate is more withdrawn, keeps her distant with the crew and by the book.

* [[Will They Oror Won]]'tTheyt They?]]: Mike and Kate. ET and Nikki {{spoiler|ET and Nikki do but before it is finalised and fully out in the open he is murdered. Mike and Kate finally get together at the start of the fourth series when he is promoted off the '''Hammersley''' but he is back at the end of the second episode and their relationship is put on hold for the rest of the season to Kate's increasing fustration. She breaks it off in the fifth season and goes out with old flame Jim but they get together in the final episode}}.

* [[Working Withwith the Ex]]: Mike and Kate in the first season.

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