Japanese coastguard vessels - armed with loudspeakers and fire hoses - closed in on a Taiwanese fishing fleet of some 60 boats as it neared the disputed East China Sea islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. Heavy seas made contact between hostile crews seem inevitable, but strong winds dissipated much of the water cannon jet before it could take effect on the bare decks of the little fishing boats. MORE INFO & PHOTOS: http://on.rt.com/ht9ghr RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.