Posted on 10/29/2009 9:43:08 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
A British man has told how he and his wife were kidnapped by armed pirates while the pair slept aboard their yacht in the Indian Ocean.
Paul Chandler, of Kent, speaking by phone to ITV news, said: "I was asleep and men with guns came aboard."
Mr Chandler, 59, said he and his wife, Rachel, 55, are currently being held hostage on board a container ship.
Their yacht was found during counter-piracy operations after a major multi-national search for the pair began.
Mr Chandler, from Tunbridge Wells, said the raid had come in the early hours.
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Mr Chandler said the pair were being held hostage on a Singapore-registered container ship called the Kota Wajah. He was speaking from the captain's cabin at 1100 GMT (1400 local time).
He said their captors had not officially asked for a ransom.
He said: "I was off watch. I was asleep and men with guns came aboard. It was on Friday last week at 0230."
The kidnapped man's brother-in-law, Stephen Collett, 58, of Ixworth, Suffolk, has confirmed that the voice in the phone call was that of Mr Chandler.
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Sounds like a sequel to “Ruthless People”.
I’m thinking maybe something like an electric fence might help. Bump the amperage way up, and run it while taking naps. electrocute the scumbags while they are trying to board, and don’t forget to turn it off before getting underway.
I have heard the Seychelles are beautiful....and used to be a great place to travel to....but, I guess with pirates roaming the seas now....not so much.
http://www.indigomoon.us/triplog/tr030.html
It's the website of a Baton Rouge attorney and his wife who have been cruising the Caribbean for some years. The first part of his 2-part report on the Rio Dulce marina in Guatemala is especially interesting, as is his take on cognitve dissonance , what he calls a “romantic vs classic” mentality in cruisers.
Interesting.
Oh, and Google “Jessica Watson” , a 16 year old Australian girl who is attempting to set the record for the youngest single-handed unassisted circumnavigator. There’s another girl, a Dutch girl, who wants to set the record-she’s not quite 14, I believe. Her parents are divorced-the dad supports her, the mom (she lives with the dad) is against it. The Dutch government has taken custody of her while they decide if she’s capable of deciding for herself.
People are nuts nowadays. I know way back when that people younger than these did such things, but upbringing was different then.
I wonder if these folks would have made 17 year old Rifqa Bary go back to Ohio...
Oh my, I had been following that story, and then got away from it. I didn’t know she’d been handed over to Ohio. That the father fired the attorney who made the deal, after getting her back to Ohio, is very unsettling.
Arm up! High waters are no longer safe!
http://www.indigomoon.us/triplog/tr030.html
Thanks for posting this, I enjoyed reading their entries!
I enjoyed them too, with a bit of envy :) But not much, I’m a homegirl.
Obviously not younger, if she's going for the record.
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