I don't know if I can think of something more fun than unleashing all Holy Hell on a pirate ship with the most advanced weaponry on hand. Leave 'em bobbing in the water, something tells me they're not going to be able to swim the 75 miles back to shore.
Owl_Eagle
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"
One of the worst parts of being a merchant mariner is that we're relatively unarmed. Piracy is a real growth industry off Africa, in the South China Sea and even in the Caribbean. Our dear friends, the Chinese Gov't. have a nasty habit of buying stolen ships, then repainting them and reselling them. The odds are decent that there's 24 filipinos being held hostage on that ship... there are no pirate 'mother ships,' just hijacked ships being used as temporary bases of operations. The real shame is that if there is a crew being held, they generally get 'dissapeared' when the ship gets sold.
Hey, on a happier note, remember the WTO summit in Savannah Last year? One of my sailors flew a pirate flag up the mast of my tanker- CNN was using us for a backdrop, so another one of my guys hung a blowup doll over the rail. The CNN guys moved.