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Originally Posted by jimbuna
This really concerns me....my 19 year old son sailed north through Suez less than a week ago  |
I wouldn't worry. From what I hear, the Suez canal is a giant sail-in shopping mall; that's probably what these boats were (Either selling crap or buying crap. Lot of these guys actually come onboard with the pilot and line-handling crews). Or just bystander.
What weirds me out is the discrepancy on the casualty count.
Stuff like this is why merchant vessels don't usually carry weapons. They want the boat, let 'em have it... And seriously, pulling out a Cole in the Suez canal would inconvenience the Egyptians more than the company getting attacked. Canal's not that deep. The refloating effort probably wouldn't even affect world economy that much.