Original sentence: Media reporting indicated that in 2004 a Royal Australian Navy boarding party, of HMAS Adelaide,  were engaged in a similar incident.The RAN boarding party re-boarded the vessel and repelled the Iranian advances, later being recovered by helicopter.The media reports suggest that this indicated superior situational awareness by the RAN party
Edited sentence: From this position they were able to face off their would-be captors, who backed down.It later emerged that the Australian stand off with the Iranians had in fact occurred some two and half years earlier in December 2004, when a boarding party from HMAS Adelaide was confronted by the Iranians.The claim is that the Australians showed better situational awareness, and that by the time the British were aware of the Iranians they were too vulnerable in their small craft to risk doing the same.To add to the controversy of the official reports it was reported, on 21 June 2007, that some months previous to the seizure of the British seamen, a Royal Australian Navy patrol, operating to the same rules of engagement, faced a similar incident.When the Iranians approached, the Australians were able to re-board the vessel they had previously been searching, and to set up machine guns