The biting winter wind makes the waters to Taiwan's northeast especially treacherous. It is dizzying enough just to see the patrol vessels being tossed about at the quay side, let alone putting out to sea in a force 7 or 8 gale to intercept smugglers and illegal immigrants, and deal with uncooperative trawler crews.
寒冽的東北季風下，台灣東北海域海相尤其險惡，噸位小的緝私船，在碼頭內便幌蕩得叫人眼冒金星，更遑論在外海七、八級巨風中攔截走私船、偷渡客，面對不甚和善的走私漁民。