Chapter 294

After Powell arranged their own work, all the staff began to work in full swing, and even the people from the security company were preparing. It seems that this salvage mission needs to stay here for several days. Moreover, it is a treasure salvage operation, which is very easy to attract the attention of pirates.

Modern pirates are mainly distributed in two places, one is from northeast Africa to southwest Asia and northwest corner of the Indian Ocean in the Gulf of Aden. The other is the East and west sides of the Strait of Malacca in Southeast Asia. In addition, it is also said to exist in the West Indian Ocean and the East African coast north of Madagascar.

They are now in a sea area between the activities of Somali pirates and Malacca pirates, and they have been exposed in the last fishing operation, so it is difficult not to be watched by these pirates.

From November 7 to 16, 2008, Somali pirates hijacked more than 10 merchant ships in ten days. On the 15th, three commercial ships were hijacked in one day, including Sirius Star, the world's second largest supertanker. It is reported that the illegal income of Somali pirates reached 100 million US dollars in 2008.

Although a large part of the hijacked fishing boats or cargo ships were hijacked because they met pirates at sea, many of them were actually targeted by pirates in advance. Because of the pirate business, and the sea transportation is very busy.

For pirates, the workload of robbing an old cargo ship full of potatoes is no different from hijacking a super tanker. So, which ship is the most profitable hijacking is naturally the most concerned issue for pirates.

So now the Somali pirates have begun to send investigators to work in places like the Suez Canal. Long distance calls and the Internet are used to inform shipping in order to find the fattest prey.

In addition to investigators, Internet search is also a powerful tool for pirates. By using search server to search the ship's name, you can easily obtain the ship's date and relevant information, so as to find a high-value target to fight for more ransom. In fact, Sirius Star was hijacked by pirates after being detected in advance.

In the process of hijacking, pirates mainly use speedboats as boarding tools. However, such small vessels can only move near shore. In order to obtain further travel, Somali pirates often adopt the mode of mother ship battle group.

Use a modified tug or cargo ship to carry a number of fast boats to sea. In this way, its radius of activity can be extended to hundreds of nautical miles away from the shore. In the past, the way of sailing far away from the coast of Somalia has been unable to avoid pirate attacks.

The mother ship of Pirates often has radar and satellite positioning system. Once it enters the sea area where the target may appear, it will turn on the radar for searching. Although the accuracy of civil radar is not enough to lock the data of ship speed and approximate volume, it can still judge whether it is a ship that is ready to be hijacked by itself through the movement direction of the object on the screen.

When the target ship is found, the mother ship first determines its sailing direction and then pursues. When approaching the target distance of 6-10 nautical miles, the speedboat can be launched for boarding operation. There are generally two ways to launch a speedboat. The most common method is to lift the boat. The boat on the deck is directly put into the sea through the crane, and then the motor is started to drive away.

In recent years, some pirate ships have modified their mother ships to make movable hydraulic steel plates on the rear deck. In this way, once the boat needs to be launched, the inclined plate can be spread out, and the speedboat can slide into the sea like a slide.

Generally speaking, Somali pirates will send out 3-4 speedboats in a hijacking and approach the target ship from both sides at the same time. And fire a gun to warn the targeted ship not to resist. In the boarding operation, two speedboats throw ropes or rope ladders to different positions on both sides of the ship to the deck, and another one or two speedboats are armed with guns 100 meters away from the target ship. If necessary, fire can be fired at any time on the deck who dare to resist.

After the pirates boarded the ship, they would control the cockpit as soon as possible, lock all the crew members into the bottom cabin or concentrate on the deck, and then drive the hostages and the ship to the shore of the port under their control.

Since the relevant investigation has been carried out in advance, and the ship owner can also be contacted directly through the captain. At this time, the Pirate Group will have special personnel in charge of negotiation to ask the shipowner to provide a certain amount of ransom before returning the hostage and the hijacked ship.

In the negotiation project, the general Pirate Group will show the evidence of the safety of the hostage and the ship. The main content of the negotiation is the amount of the ransom, the time and place of the payment, and the delivery place and time of the ship hostage.

Generally speaking, Somali pirates seldom hurt the hijacked crew members because they always seek ransom. However, harming the crew will mean that the reputation will be affected. In that case, the owner of the hijacked ship may not pay the ransom in the future.

Fishing boats like them can be regarded as high-value targets, especially if they know that the fishing boats have gained a lot, they are more attractive to pirates.

Now they have to stay here for several days or even more than ten days, which is enough for the pirates to carry out various preparations. Whether they come from the Somali sea or from the Malacca sea area, such a long time is enough.

So after the meeting, John asked Lei Tiantang to discuss the security work of the salvage ship. Seeing that John came to find Lei Tiantang for something, Kaila and Lei Tiantang called out to see the crew work."What's the matter? Looking for me now? Is there something wrong with the security work? " Lei Tiantang asked John to sit down with a smile.

"It's such a boss. The sea area where our salvage ship is located is just about the same as that of Somali pirates and Malacca pirates. What's more, we were exposed in the last salvage mission, so it's very likely to be targeted by pirates!

Moreover, we need to stay for a long time this time, so the pirates have enough time to prepare. At that time, we may even face many pirates!

Although boss, the weapons you brought this time are not small, but these weapons are used up, and the sustainability is not good. In case of continuous attacks by pirates, the number of rockets and bullets we have now is certainly not enough!

Such a situation will lead to loopholes in our security work, so boss, do you think you need to supplement our security department with some more ammunition when there are no pirates coming?

In my experience, we are almost 90% more likely to be attacked by pirates this time, so we can't do without replenishing weapons and ammunition! " John explained why he came.

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