Luxury Yacht Company Offers Pirate-Hunting Cruises

[SUBMAN1]

Leave it to the Russians. They will fix things. I'm beginning to think Russian has the only common sense left in the world

-S

Passengers on a new cruise along the coast of Somalia are paying to catch more than just salmonella.

A Russian luxury yacht company is now offering pirate-hunting trips that promise the chance to be attacked by real sea bandits. The yachts cruise from Djibouti to Mombasa in Kenya at deliberately low speeds in the hopes of attracting pirates.

Passengers pay $5,000 for the trip, and an extra $17.50 a day for an AK-47 and 100 rounds of ammo. The price includes free origami towels in the rooms. Former Special Forces troops are on board to make sure none of the cruise passengers are injured.

http://www.asylum.com/2009/06/26/lux...nting-cruises/

[VipertheSniper]

Wow... that's just sick

[SUBMAN1]

Hardly. What pirates do is sick. To make them run scared is a tactic.

-S

[Letum]

If you want to donate money towards protesting merchant shipping, fair
enough. Pay for some "Special Forces troops" to go out there and patrol.

If you want to pay money to personally have the experience of shooting at
people...yer, that's sick.

A most unscrupulous business.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Letum

If you want to donate money towards protesting merchant shipping, fair
enough. Pay for some "Special Forces troops" to go out there and patrol.

If you want to pay money to personally have the experience of shooting at
people...yer, that's sick.

A most unscrupulous business.

I'm sorry, call me what you will but killing people for sport, no matter what their crimes, is a tad bit psychopathic to me.

[Max2147]

The Most Dangerous Game, now on water!

Reminds me a bit of what the Australians used to do back in the early settler days - go on hunting parties to shoot Aborigines. They justified it because the Aborigines occasionally killed their animals.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Leave it to the Russians. They will fix things. I'm beginning to think Russian has the only common sense left in the world

-S

http://www.asylum.com/2009/06/26/lux...nting-cruises/

Oh hell, that sounds like my kind of vacation!

"I'm just a fat western tourist, on an opulent pleasure cruise...oh my, what's that? Somali pirates? Coming to attack us and rob us? Eat lead, pirates!! "

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Letum

If you want to donate money towards protesting merchant shipping, fair
enough. Pay for some "Special Forces troops" to go out there and patrol.

If you want to pay money to personally have the experience of shooting at
people...yer, that's sick.

A most unscrupulous business.

Nah. Its back to the old days where the pirates must pay a price to prey on the unsuspecting. Of course all pirates will pray that all peoples have your logic. That way they are free to do as they will.

-S

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Oh hell, that sounds like my kind of vacation!

"I'm just a fat western tourist, on an opulent pleasure cruise...oh my, what's that? Somali pirates? Coming to attack us and rob us? Eat lead, pirates!! "

See? Americans and Russians really aren't that different from another. There is a common ground.

[HunterICX]

how much to rent a RPG-7 a day

HunterICX

[Skybird]

The only question that matters is whether or not it will help to make shipping more secure.

If so we can dismantle national navies and replace them with state-subsidised yacht cruises for everybody.

[XTBilly]

Originally Posted by Skybird

If so we can dismantle national navies and replace them with state-subsidised yacht cruises for everybody.

Yaght armament price catalogue (per day):

Economical
.45 cal pistol 5$
.30 cal machine gun 15$
.50 cal machine gun 20$

First class
20mm cannon 40$
20mm cannon double 60$
40mm cannon 80$

Luxury class
Quad Pom-Pom 150$
3in gun 220$
4in gun 280$
5in gun 350$
88mm gun 420$
6in gun 500$
6in gun x2 800$

For special and tactical clients, a Somalia beach invasion, air&sea supported will be offered for free!

[antikristuseke]

Hunting human beings for sport does not seem to be a horribly good idea to me, actualy it sounds quite aburd and appaling. Do not get me wrong, the pirates need to be stoped, but surely there are better ways of doing it than this.

[Skybird]

Think of them as mercenaries for whose service you must not pay, but who pay you!

Honestely, I do not see why bloodtourism that pays for the voyage, is morally inferior than renting mercenaries who get payed for killing people. Sounds like mawkishness to me.

The question is: do you want to fight pirates by use of force, or not. So far the answers mostly is not. And this is where these sensitive sentiments that feel so very shocked by that tourism idea are coming from.

If I oppose the tourism idea, than it is because I oppose the idea of privatised violance - including mercenaries and merc-companies - in principle, for where private business is allowed to form an interest in maitaining a state of war, that is not helpful for politics aiming at establishing peace. Sentimental moral indignation has little to do with it, for me.

[longam]

I wanna be the pirate!