Sounds like a plan, dangle the bait, and when the school approaches, then blast the whole dam mess out of the sea.
Somehow I cant, in my own mind, imagine that the pirates are racing to the scene to take on several warships. One could always hope, but my question is, if the captain was in the water, why did the Bainbridge not hose that boat with machine gun fire and put a stop to the situation right there? What the Hell is going on there that someone was not on rail duty with an M-60? The opportunity of the day, in their laps, and the Navy sets there with their thumbs up their a-holes. Unforgivable.
Because you can be that we are not allowed to fire.