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Just read this myself and good for them for sinking the 'mother ship'. If it were me, I would be eyeing the tanker with my cannons also. Let it burn and the 'pirates' go with it. Just setting precidence for the next one they take. Just sink'em. Maybe this is way I'm not in charge :hmm:
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This would just cause a catastrophic oil spill that would affect thousands of people (not to mention animals). I don't know if that's a great idea.:hmm: |
Yep. The environmental catastrophe would put a lot of Somali fishermen out of business and feed them right into the trade of piracy. I'm sure also that Vela Int'l would have something to say about sending their brand new $150 million ship to the bottom with the $100 million worth of oil. I bet maritime shipping insurance premiums would also balloon dramatically. |
What catastrophe? They should be deploying clean up ships and booms right now. Like I said, damned if we do damned if we don't. Ok, we blow up the ship. Flames, leaking oil. We are there for immediate response on clean up. If we do a commando raid, boom, the pirates blow it up instead. Flames, leaking oil. We are there to clean it up immediately. OK, we pay a ransom of $150 million...we still may not get the ship back in one piece. No guarantees in this situation. Furthermore, if we do get the ship back, we have done nothing but financed their next high seas adventure
