Yeah - they were doing such a good job, executing people for going to the cinema and other such stability.
Britons held hostage as Somali pirates seize oil supertanker
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Yeah - they were doing such a good job, executing people for going to the cinema and other such stability.
Never in a million years, Somalia is a mess. The UN and US got involved, many men died and nothing changed. Best to leave it to sort itself out.
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Hahaha thats made me chuckle...
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Lets send in SCS with comfortable chaise longes!
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SBS is way better then the SAS
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^Lol that would be awesome - and get the guys back who mad the fourth one! (I have yet to play the fifth, I really wanna find out how it compares before I shell out thirty little coins..)..
I'm suprised that they don't already. If they can hijack a super tanker that far out to sea, they can hijack anything.
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SCS - Senior Civil Service? Don't think they'd be of much help? Probably just 10 months of discussing the problem whilst spening about 2 Million in the process.
Perhaps all the merchant boats should swtich there flags to the jolly roger and hope those pirates think they are "friendlies"? Lets just hope those Somali pirates have US friend - foe detection systems
Perhaps all the merchant boats should swtich there flags to the jolly roger and hope those pirates think they are "friendlies"? Lets just hope those Somali pirates have US friend - foe detection systems
Precisely my point. They'd have done better to discourage intervention in the last couple of years, all that the Ethiopians managed was to worsen the problems (piracy being one example). Imagine the UK invading the Irish Republic over the NI situation, thats the equivalent here.
IIRC you're not allowed under international law to carry fire-arms on civilian ships (at least that is/was the explanation i've heard on various programmes) - hence the reason most cargo ships practice using their firehoses (extremely high pressure*) to defend the ships from boarders. Unfortunately most modern ships don't have enough crew on board to respond that quickly, or protect against multiple small vessels (and if the pirates are armed with rocket launchers you possibly don't want to annoy them when you're carrying a few million tons of oil).
Or to put it another way, Sky news don't seem to know the law
Also, whilst it's alarming to hear of this sort of thing, apparently it's roughly the same odds of encountering pirates at sea, as a ship of 500 tons to be lost due to other reasons, so it's not actually that common.
What would make more sense would be for the major countries involved in shipping to have a number of specialist anti-piracy ships, no need for the sort of hugely heavy fire-power that even a small modern warship carries, but rather a smallish ship with a couple of helicopters (and support crews), with enough marines to respond to calls for help, or even make a deal with some of the oil companies to make use of a few super tankers to carry a team of Navy/Marines and helicoptors as they go through certain areas (basically use the existing shipping to carry them for short periods of time).
*Several times more so than a fire-engine's
I was thinking the same thing, in international waters why can't any country just go in guns blazing and utterly destroy the pirates, imagine if a country actually sent a naval task force down there and just started laying waste to the pirate boats.
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If I was in the RN and was really bored I'd setup a mortar on the deck and sit there taking pot shots at them until I hit. It'd be like a big game of battleships but against three guys in a wooden boat and a rusted rocket launcher.
I bet they don't even shout "Yarrr!" when they board. Take's all the fun out of it
Edit: In fact, being an anti-pirate sounds fun. Keyboards at the ready fellow OcUKers? Where's that "I made a sub as a hobby" thread when you need it?
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Well that might happen...
