11-19-08, 04:31 PM
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Lucky Jack 
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
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  |
It cost $5 billion in 2008 dollars to clean up the mess from Exxon Valdez and she leaked only 40 million litres. Sirius Star is carrying 300 million litres of crude. Assuming there are even enough resources in the world to mobilize for mitigating that scale of disaster and you are willing to accept the costs, if you can get them close enough to the Star for an immediate response you might as well make a rescue attempt. I think the pirates would have a real struggle draining her tanks in the couple of minutes it would take for a SEAL team to secure the ship anyway. |
Drain the tanks? Those pirates will have explosives rigged. One button. Remember, they have the money to secure some nice explosives and devices to set them off. I do not think they will run for the spiqot.
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