cressida Posted January 14, 2011 Author Share Posted January 14, 2011 They'll have to carry a huge net next time and throw it over them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 They'll have to carry a huge net next time and throw it over them it would have to be a big net to cover a cruise liner oh wait, you meant the cruise liner with the net? tbh they prolly wont want to get that close, rpgs would make a nasty hole in the hull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hels1977 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Don't often have petrol bombs on boats, you do tend to have a lot of flares though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygardener Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 As far as i'm aware you can carry what you want at sea weapon wise as long as you don't bring them onshore in places where they are illegal. Defo a hole in the market for a company to rent out assault weapons coming out of the suez canal with return points near say off cormoros, dubai and bombay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooky3 Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 It's getting worse year on year as well... The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) maintains statistics regarding pirate attacks dating back to 1995. Their records indicate hostage-taking overwhelmingly dominates the types of violence against seafarers. For example in 2006, there were 239 attacks, 77 crew members were kidnapped and 188 taken hostage but only 15 of the pirate attacks resulted in murder. In 2007 the attacks rose by 10% to 263 attacks. There was a 35% increase on reported attacks involving guns. Crew members that were injured numbered 64 compared to just 17 in 2006. That number does not include hostages/kidnapping where they were not injured. The number of attacks within the first nine months of 2009 already surpassed the previous year's due to the increased pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden and off Somalia. Between January and September the number of attacks rose to 306 from 293. The pirates boarded the vessels in 114 cases and hijacked 34 of them so far in 2009. Gun use in pirate attacks has gone up to 176 cases from 76 last year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy#Modern_age http://www.icc-ccs.org/home/piracy-reporting-centre/imb-live-piracy-map-2010/another-live-piracy-map Some old figures: 15 merchants vessels highjacked by pirates; 138 merchant vessels boarded by pirates; 11 merchant vessels fired upon by pirates 35 merchant crew members badly injured; Over 400 merchant crew members taken hostage by pirates; and Over 75 merchant crew members murdered in cold blood. But those figures are for 1998. Murder, rape, mutilation, robbery and a host of other crimes by depraved, blood thirsty pirates without pity only got worse in 1999 and 2000. This year alone the increase may be as much as 60%. http://www.cargolaw.com/presentations_pirates.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/10/rise-of-modern-day-pirate_n_185606.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
depoix Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 the russians have the right idea , boared the pirates then handcuff them ,then blow the ship up with the pirates attached http://true-turtle.livejournal.com/85315.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berberis Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 We should create a no sail zone and police it. Allow locals to fish up to 5 miles off the coast and any boat found between 10-50 miles off the coast will be destroyed. It wont take long before the pirates are either dead or give up being pirates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 We should create a no sail zone and police it. Allow locals to fish up to 5 miles off the coast and any boat found between 10-50 miles off the coast will be destroyed. It wont take long before the pirates are either dead or give up being pirates. create it where? who would be the locals? and why couldnt the pirates pretend to be the fishing locals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berberis Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 create it where? who would be the locals? and why couldnt the pirates pretend to be the fishing locals? Off of the Somali coast where EU and other nations currently patrol. The locals are those living on the coast and not partaking in pirate activity they can, but as just about every pirate abduction takes place up to a hundred miles off of the Somali coast, creating a no sail zone and making all shipping aware of that fact would mean no boat could get from the coast to open waters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygardener Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Off of the Somali coast where EU and other nations currently patrol. The locals are those living on the coast and not partaking in pirate activity they can, but as just about every pirate abduction takes place up to a hundred miles off of the Somali coast, creating a no sail zone and making all shipping aware of that fact would mean no boat could get from the coast to open waters. For boats identified as pirates by CTF150 this is already in effect in place. Problem is it's a big area of sea and CTF150 have a limitted number of naval vessels at any given point. I'd certainly be happy to toughen up their roe to sink pirates on sight rather than just tracking them if they do not engage first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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