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Remember this with the Russians rescuing a ship last week?
http://forums.milnet.ca/forums/threads/67625/post-931628.html#msg931628
Well, the pirates' health and safety committee needs to work on better water safety training - this, from the Wall Street Journal:
That said, I believe it's a bit of a leap to go from "we don't know where the boat ended up" to "they could be dead", but they could also be ashore, too. And if they're not, well, Pirate Health/Safety team, UP!
http://forums.milnet.ca/forums/threads/67625/post-931628.html#msg931628
Well, the pirates' health and safety committee needs to work on better water safety training - this, from the Wall Street Journal:
Ten pirates released from a Russian warship 300 miles out to sea may have drowned, according to Russian officials and colleagues of the pirates, raising fears of retaliation against other vessels plying East African waters.
The pirates were captured last week after they hijacked the Moscow University, a Liberian-flagged, Russian-operated oil tanker sailing off the Somali coast. A Russian warship came to the ship's rescue and apprehended the pirates. But after determining it would be too difficult to obtain a conviction, Russian officials said that they dropped plans to take the pirates to Moscow for trial.
Instead, like many other warships that have intercepted pirate skiffs, the Russian marines released the pirates — but not before removing weapons and navigation equipment from the boat several hundred miles from shore. Russian officials gave no explanation for removing the navigation equipment.
A Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson said radio signals from the boat disappeared about an hour after the release. "That could mean that they are dead," the spokesperson said ....
That said, I believe it's a bit of a leap to go from "we don't know where the boat ended up" to "they could be dead", but they could also be ashore, too. And if they're not, well, Pirate Health/Safety team, UP!