I believe that we should make a start on sea lane traffic control for these purposes.
It is the only green field site linking a natural deep sea lane with a 1970/72 motorway system.
It does not need much imagination to visualise the damage or the panic which one hostile or potentially hostile nuclear submarine on patrol on this vital sea lane could occasion.
All the dangers and obstacles characteristic of narrow waterways are present and acute in this critical sea lane.
Although it is an important international sea lane, it is very shallow, and the maze of reefs and islands can make it hazardous to navigate.
I think that we as an island race must not forget these sea lanes.
This country is above all a trading nation, so that those sea lanes are all the more important to our survival.
The questions of our sea lanes over a long period of attrition and of conventional attacks are not to be excluded.
