ease up gents, I was being facetious...
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The Great Pirates off the Somali Coast thread
- Thread starter Beefalo
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Pirates fire upon HSL-49 helo
090826-N-0000F-003 U.S. 5th FLEET AOR (Aug. 26, 2009) Somali pirates aboard Motor Vessel (M/V) Win Far fire upon a U.S. Navy SH-60B Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Scorpions of Light Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HSL) 49. The Helicopter, embarked aboard the cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62), was conducting a surveillance mission near the anchored M/V Win Far south of Garacad, Somalia. The video, from Forward Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR), shows the pirates firing a large caliber weapon at the helicopter. No rounds struck the Sea Hawk and no one was injured. (U.S. Navy Photo from Video/Released) Link to video clip on FLICKR U.S. Navy Gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavynvns/3862516548/
090826-N-0000F-003 U.S. 5th FLEET AOR (Aug. 26, 2009) Somali pirates aboard Motor Vessel (M/V) Win Far fire upon a U.S. Navy SH-60B Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Scorpions of Light Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HSL) 49. The Helicopter, embarked aboard the cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62), was conducting a surveillance mission near the anchored M/V Win Far south of Garacad, Somalia. The video, from Forward Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR), shows the pirates firing a large caliber weapon at the helicopter. No rounds struck the Sea Hawk and no one was injured. (U.S. Navy Photo from Video/Released) Link to video clip on FLICKR U.S. Navy Gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavynvns/3862516548/
Some motherfuckers just don't learn... Pirates attack Maersk Alabama again, and get lit up, again.
I'm curious who these guards are. I figured private security contractors, but the EU Naval spokesman described them as a "Vessel Protection Detachment" which sounds kinda official.
I'm curious who these guards are. I figured private security contractors, but the EU Naval spokesman described them as a "Vessel Protection Detachment" which sounds kinda official.
Looks like the pirates off HOA tried to attack the MAERSK ALABAMA again!!!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575529,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575529,00.html
From the guys I saw over there, Mobile Security Group dets.
Although now the MSC civvies are doing their own FP as well.
HAHAHA...one of the comments:
"Yo ho ho ho, a pirates life for...hey, what's that red dot on your fore..."
I don't know about you guys, but if I saw three of my buddies get offed by three perfect rounds from pitching deck to pitching deck in swelling seas and poor visibility conditions, I would look for a new career path.
Apparently they didn't make their statement clear enough the first time around.
Apparently they didn't make their statement clear enough the first time around.
Bootie sharing
A former Pirate doing nasty time in a jail in Puntland somewhere explained that out of the ransom, the bosses get 20%, 20% goes to necessities (food, weapons, etc), 30 for the gunmen/pirates and 30 for government dudes.
You can see where there is no incentive to stop this line of work.
take the recent ~2.3 mil ransom paid by the spaniards. 30% for the pirates, you're looking at almost 700k. Between even 10 pirates, thats a lot, I mean a lot of moolah for a Somali, where average anual earnings are around 500 bucks. So we'll have to put red dots on a whole lot of them to get them to drop the occupation.
A former Pirate doing nasty time in a jail in Puntland somewhere explained that out of the ransom, the bosses get 20%, 20% goes to necessities (food, weapons, etc), 30 for the gunmen/pirates and 30 for government dudes.
You can see where there is no incentive to stop this line of work.
take the recent ~2.3 mil ransom paid by the spaniards. 30% for the pirates, you're looking at almost 700k. Between even 10 pirates, thats a lot, I mean a lot of moolah for a Somali, where average anual earnings are around 500 bucks. So we'll have to put red dots on a whole lot of them to get them to drop the occupation.
See shpion's post.
Bank robbers get killed every year but people continue to rob banks (even the same ones). As long as a pirate's risk outweighs his reward, he will keep at it.
Don't you mean "reward outweighs the risk"?
Yes.
epic fail at reading comp.
Seriously?? You misunderstood.
Perfect example why we can't negotiate with terrorist. (Or pirates) If they stop getting ransoms, they stop making money, they stop pirating.
Yep, I did. My bad.