[MarkL]

Don’t understand why the FBI needs to “negotiate” when the Navy has SEAL teams. If the boat is out of gas and drifting, the pirates don’t have too many options at this point.

I was thinking the exact same thing... SEAL divers simply puncture the lifeboat to give the pirates some incentive.

And then some new policies need to be put into effect. Arm the merchant ships, and any unidentified ships should be immediately be fired upon and sunk. No survivors should be picked up.

Mark

[Moose4]

Apparently the ship’s master is in the lifeboat with the pirates, so they’re trying to save him. He offered himself up as a hostage to them to get the pirates off his ship, from a story I read yesterday.

}:-)4