Thread: Now We're in Trouble!

There are no "mother ships". The pirates are independants with smalls boats and small arms who have found that shipping companies will pay dearly for the return of an experienced crew and/or skipper. They are impossible to differentiate from the hundreds of other small boats fishing in the area until they attack. They made a huge mistake when they took the skipper of an American flagged vessel. Our Navy is in business to protect that ship. We are not going to run a security service for the rest of the world's merchant vessels.

The solution is for a shipping company to pay for armed security on board each ship they send into "dangerous" waters. A half dozen pirates with AK-47's and RPG's in a small boat can overtake and board any ship that has no one shooting back. One man standing a topside watch can alert the rest of a crew to draw arms and repel boarders. Even two people with shotguns from a protected, elevated position can put down any attack from a small boat.

Question: The fourth pirate, the one who went to the destroyer to "negotiate" for the American captain. Was he happy when the shooting went down? Was he surprised? Or, was he the smart one who knew the American Navy wasn't going to play around much longer but didn't want to look like a sissy in front of the other three clowns?

Brad