Cruise ship attacked by pirates with pics!

[archman]

All they need is a couple of 50 cals on board . You could sink there boat , take them out or even just take there motor out .

yeah, the Coast Guard would love that...

 

[CBulla]

Hmmm.. in some parts of the world, there aren't any of the Puddle Pirates. A vessel should be self sufficient to defend itself.

 

[dlndavid]

Hey welcome back Carlos

 

[Jamdiver]

I see that your avatar has also returned CBulla ..
My eyes have been seared shut yet again :11: .

 

[archman]

Hmmm.. in some parts of the world, there aren't any of the Puddle Pirates. A vessel should be self sufficient to defend itself.

They'd have to dismantle and stow armaments if entering the territorial seas of "more civilized" nations. Or get international permits, which I think are quite rare. Most people don't like having armed civilian ships about.

 

[Daylonious]

Personally, I just would yelled "RAMMING SPEED, Hard to Port on my Mark!", and taken some personal pleasure running over the little pirate *******s.

Then again, I'm a softie.

;-)

D.

 

[archman]

Personally, I just would yelled "RAMMING SPEED, Hard to Port on my Mark!", and taken some personal pleasure running over the little pirate *******s.

From the report, the captain of the mini cruise ship tried to do just that.

 

[MikeC]

archman, the answer is simple. When the ship is about to enter "civilized" waters that nations version of the Coast Guard boards the ship and watches the weapons specialist remove the bolt and firing pin and they place them in the ship's safe with two locks. The CG has one, the weapons specialist has the second. Then remove the gun from it's mount and secure in a safe area of the ship. Upon leaving, the reverse is done. Of course, the issue is getting one of these "civilized" countries to guarantee the ships safety while the weapons are secured.

 

[archman]

archman, the answer is simple. When the ship is about to enter "civilized" waters that nations version of the Coast Guard boards the ship and watches the weapons specialist remove the bolt and firing pin and they place them in the ship's safe with two locks. The CG has one, the weapons specialist has the second. Then remove the gun from it's mount and secure in a safe area of the ship. Upon leaving, the reverse is done. Of course, the issue is getting one of these "civilized" countries to guarantee the ships safety while the weapons are secured.

The glaring problem with this approach is that waterborne commerce protection is spread pretty dang thin. If it wasn't, there wouldn't be a pirate problem in the first place. There aren't patrol vessels in anything near enough numbers to sit on their territorial borders and do weapons inspections. I believe that's true for all maritime nations, it certainly is for the U.S.. Fortunately we don't have pirate problems, except in the northern Caribbean.

Here's a nice report on piracy in Indonesian waters from 2001. Scroll down a bit to get to the good stuff.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/october01/0110023.html

And here's a new report on how commercial shipping is dealing with it in the chronically bad areas. Mercenaries.
http://www.sundayherald.com/51057

 

[archman]

There's some newer reports on the incident. The Seabourn Spirit had a noisemaking "Long Range Acoustic Device" aboard... guess it wasn't all that useful. Maybe it only works at close quarters.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/11/07/somalia.pirates.sonic.ap/index.html