[Bagor]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Black Water is now offering armed security services for tankers and freighters, sounds like they're even building their own navy

http://www.military.com/news/article...n-pirates.html

Eventually they're going to make a fortune

Couldn't they just do security onboard the ships as they go through the area? Board at the start, disembark at the finish and join up with another boat?

5-6 fellas up there throwing rocks down at the speedboats would do the trick.

Seriously though, say 8 men armed to the teeth with the height and weaponry advantage should be able to take out a few speedboats. No Somali government to answer to as well.

I'm still curious how they managed to board the tanker. I watched one of the supership programs on Discovery a few nights back and they were showing the crew going through a pirate defence drill. Consisted mostly of water cannons spread around the ship.

And this was for a load of cows.

Originally Posted by blankall

I read this story this morning. First thought in my head, wtf are these guys going to do with that much oil? Sell raw barrels of oil in the back alley?

I guess they can hold it for ransom...

Yep, it's all ransom money.