Posted on 03/07/2011 7:42:19 AM PST by Travis McGee
Pirates hijacked 53 ships and held a total of 1,181 hostages for ransom last year, according to the International Maritime Bureau. Forty nine of those ships and 1,016 of those hostages from commercial and private vessels -- were seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia, a statistic that was brought into sharp relief last month when Somali pirates hijacked a yacht and on Feb. 22 murdered the four Americans aboard. Two days later, a Danish family, including three children, was taken from their yacht by Somali pirates and as of this writing had been moved to a larger pirate vessel off the Somali Coast.
These very unfortunate events and statistics are renewing and raising awareness about Somali piracy, and many piracy experts echo the advice of Amb. David H. Shinn, former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso, who notes that leisure travelers have no business going into the Western Indian Ocean until the crisis caused by Somali pirates has ended. The International Maritime Bureau also reports that there were 445 pirate attacks worldwide last year, underscoring that piracy is not just a Somali problem. Hostile boardings happen all over the world, especially in South Asia, the Caribbean, and even off the coast of Florida, says Charles Clifton, founder and director of non-profit security company Humanitarian Defense.
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“Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here man??? Why don’t you say something righteous, and hopeful, for a change???
.............”Crap!”...............
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FReeper Cruise, Summer 2011???
Better get on this before the “Bang list” gets all the cabins...
Wow, are they actually smoking pot in the dugout?
Exactly. But the collateral damage that would sting would be the raped, tortured and beheaded hostages.
Geez, don’t ask me calibers, you know WAY more than I do at that end!
I like the ring around the dot on my EOTech. And as long as I have batteries, I’m good to go. I guess the TEOTWAWKI question is, will there still be batteries by the time the ACOGs go dim??
Oh, yeah, I’m talking about as a civilian on a boat! A folding stock stainless steel mini-14 (then painted with engine black) was my boat gun for years, til I deep sixed it and two other guns off of Mexico.
You charter the boat at 86 for a year, and I’ll skipper it.
Nooooooooo.....not the secret plywood rifles !
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God was on those boats...keeping me alive for all these kids i was gonna have.....i am probably the last person to advise anyone on safe boating...lol...alas safe boating today for me means a rented ski nautique for the boys tubing or a safe Ouachita to and from the duck blind
i tell u when Bill Buckley and John Galbraith made that Horn passage in their mid 60s in 16 meter Swan ....now that was balls......these tuff guys here should confine themselves to the Roaring Forties....so they cant ridicule folks for being near pirates
It wuzn’t the plywood rifles they wuz worried about. It wuz the bayonet. Splinters. I shall say no more.
I would throw my guns overboard if I had to make an unplanned diversion to a Mexican port. In fact, I did.
Read a book recently where a sailor placed his firearms in a watertight bag, poured oil in his bilge, and weighted the bag down in it. Fiction, don't you just love it!
Yep.....gotta agree on that one...splinter groups are dangerous !
Stay safe !
Some tracer rounds mixed in might also help.
Thanks for the ping. Now how does one stop sea sickness?
Given a choice between taking a family on a typical 40 footer around South Africa or up the Red Sea, the Red Sea is still probably safer, pirates and all. Just get in a convoy group, and stay in it.
Something like that crossed my mind, but the Mexicans are notorious. If they find them, you are looking at decades in a hellhole prison. The guns are sure not worth the money compared to prison time.
Especially at night.
There are a lot of great meds for that now. I also recommend staying aboard in port for a while before going off shore, to acclimate your balance. Going from a home on a concrete slab to straight off shore is a problem for most folks.
60 days after the Collapse iron sights and those who know how to use them will rule the world.
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They call those AR-10's
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