Old Hippie Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Waste the captain as well, send the message we don't care, take hostages, you still are going to die...see how fast it ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 ... life is cheap in Somalia. Plenty willing to take a chance for a cut of a million USD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Stand up captain! Willing to go "down with the ship" in protection of his crew...very few like him today!!! Send the SEALs, nighttime, drill a few small holes very quietly in the bottom of the fiberglass lifeboat, sit back and let things happen...no fuss, no mess...the pirates will never know what happened! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroyinEwa/Perv Posted April 11, 2009 Report Share Posted April 11, 2009 Rather than start another thread on the same subject, I'm just gonna piggyback this one........Here we go again.... Seafarers official: Pirates hijack US tugboat NAIROBI, Kenya â?? The head of a Kenyan seafarers' program said Saturday that Somali pirates had hijacked an American-owned tugboat with 16 crew in the Gulf of Aden. Nairobi-based Italian Ambassador Pierandrea Magistrati said he only could confirm that "there is a boat that has been hijacked, I believe by Somali pirates." The hijacking took place as the American captain of the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama was still being held hostage on a lifeboat being watched by two U.S. warships. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driftwood Posted April 11, 2009 Report Share Posted April 11, 2009 Knowing how Maersk operates (cheap, cheap and more cheap) they didn't even have a fire hose on the ship! Yes MLL is very cheap how they operate. They have not had a good month, they are also the operators of the USNS Impeccable that had the run in with Chinese last month. They used the fire hoses but I don't think that would work to well against AK-47s. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pom Michael Posted April 12, 2009 Report Share Posted April 12, 2009 Impeccable Driftwood - any source that Maersk is the operator of the USNS Impeccable? "Most special mission ships are operated by civilian mariners who work for private companies under contract to MSC. Only three ships, USS Emory S. Land, USS Mount Whitney and USNS Zeus, are crewed by MSC's civil service mariners." I don't find any reference to which company is holding the contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted April 12, 2009 Report Share Posted April 12, 2009 You may well not, thanks to 9/11... All this info used to be on the website of the various operating companies, but has mostly disappeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pom Michael Posted April 12, 2009 Report Share Posted April 12, 2009 Oops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh_Hoy Posted April 12, 2009 Report Share Posted April 12, 2009 U.S. Navy Seals rescued the captain today; three pirates killed and one taken prisoner. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: Not sure of the purpose of taking a prisoner in this case. Only thing I can see him useful for is shark chum. HH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driftwood Posted April 12, 2009 Report Share Posted April 12, 2009 Impeccable Driftwood - any source that Maersk is the operator of the USNS Impeccable? "Most special mission ships are operated by civilian mariners who work for private companies under contract to MSC. Only three ships, USS Emory S. Land, USS Mount Whitney and USNS Zeus, are crewed by MSC's civil service mariners." I don't find any reference to which company is holding the contract. For the Special Mission ships (PM2) Maersk has the Ocean Surveillance Ships and Missile Range Instrumentation ship and Horizon Lines has the contract for the Oceanographic Survey ship. Not sure about the others but I believe you are correct about CIVMARs crewing the Land, Whitney and Zeus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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