2) When in ANY port, keep your business to yourself, don't answer questions, ask questons as an answer. Never admit to being an American, claim Canadian citizenship, they don't tick the people of the world off like we do.

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Don't admit to being British either. They don't like us either.

If you do stand off and you have to bug out, make sure that you are BOW ON TO THEM. If you are stern on or broadside you make a very vunerable simple target. The steersman and your engines are the first things that they are going to shoot at.

So if you do have to boogie, do it right over the top of them.

A few tonnes of boat right in the teeth is going to hurt.

Personally, I'd do a drive-by, communicating their needs while my motors kept running (though, I want a sailboat, which poses a whole different problem). Since I probably wouldn't be sailing alone, it would be prudent to have the firearm visible, but not being brandished.

Call the Coasties. Or the Navy. Or whoever you can get on the radio (assuming I'm not on a naval ship at the time).

Wait a safe distance, just like everyone says. And, I have to agree with the "bow on" approach. Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead. The ocean should do a good job of washing off the left overs.

You mean they really do still fly the Jolly Roger??? WOW!

All good thoughts here. I have the feeling that my first thought wouldn't be pirates, though. But I guess a lot of shark bait thought the same thing.

The "Watch for Pirates" signs on board commercial fishing boats are probably being stolen all the time.

Sue

This thread reminded me of a national geographic special on those huge mega-tankers and how they routinely have to monitor for pirate activity. Their only defense is high pressure water hoses. You'd think with a multi-billion dollar floating investment like that they'd have some sort of security on board.

Ah, I forgot about that one...

What about "Captain Ron"???

You ever been hit with a high pressure water hose???

I'm manning the RCC midwatch at Kodiak Airstation with a quartermaster and LTJG in 1972 ( as a new E 2 I had the most important job, walking a hanger and aircraft check with a Detex clock and keeping the coffee mess in order.) About 2 A.M we get a call from a crabber being harrassed by pirate fishermen ( usually out of Taiwan, Japan or South Korea, the usual friends who ignored quotas and boundaries) making close passes alongside. The foolish new LT blew him off and said they were probably making helm errors in the dark and to check his running lights.When the JG went to the head, the Chief told the skipper (a well known local crabber)to do what needed doing- and then 'adjusted' the tape recording of their conversation to erase. The crabber had a swivel mounted commercial BAR in .338 with a homemade 10 round magazine on the flying bridge that always impressed me. He was also the town demolition expert who would blow clear the seasonal landslides on the few roads with carefully lain charges of dynamite. There was a search later for a Taiwanese fishing boat that vanished without a trace. Our crabber friend wasalso well known in his youth as a college quarterback capable of lobbing things with great precision.

Postscript with more serious input gleaned from my 6 year career. I come from a navy family, except for this cousin of my grandmother she forever estranged insulting his wife and service choice. His name was Yeager and he did pretty O.K. in the Air Force from bits and pieces the family picked up through the years.I was the second disappointment, first joining the Coast Guard and later attending UC Berkely and not UCLA like the rest of the family. 5 photos along the wall from Korea back to this tintype of some guy on a river ironclad, hand inside his jacket. My brother, fresh from the manly right of passage being initiated into his UCLA fraternity claimed my coastie portrait briefly found a home in the bathroom until my gaze was seen directed at hte toilet's occupants.I received a short letter from my grand uncle from his V.A. retirement home in Arizona. He somehow managed to be in France as a liasson officer and suffered mustard gas poisoning the one day he visited the front.The letter read " Dear Chris,The family said I should pass on some advise as the representative of our family naval tradition to you,though your cousin Franze has been accepted into NROTC at UCLA. This is my advise- "DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER. Oh, be carefull in France too"

You're right!

I can't wait for this film !!!!





Anyone seen the trailer?


Are you going to see it? granted zombies would be better but I don't think they could handle the cold...