[Cicero]

Yes, this seems very strange to me, too. Why would you hire three British “security guards” (pretty expensive, I would think) who were unarmed, and who jumped into the sea at the first sign of a pirate attack?

It certainly sounds like those cowardly Brit sailors who surrendered to Iranian gunboats.

[4woodenboats]

They probably were ordered by the captain to stand down and try to resolve things peacefully, and told him “Sure we will, we'll be down there swimming towards that helicopter”

[Niuhuru]

Maybe they were trained by the French.