Chapter 294: Start of salvage and preparations for anti-piracy attacks

After Powell arranged their respective jobs, all the employees began to work in full enthusiasm for their duties. Even the people from the security company are preparing. It seems that this salvage mission needs to stay here for several times. In days, and the action of salvaging treasures, it is very easy to attract the attention of pirates.
Modern pirates are mainly distributed in two places, one is the Gulf of Aden waters from northeast Africa to southwest Asia and the northwest corner of the Indian Ocean. The other is the east and west sides of the Strait of Malacca in Southeast Asia. It is also said to be found in the West Indian Ocean and the East African coast north of Madagascar.
And the sea area where they are now is between the activities of Somali pirates and Malacca pirates, and they have been exposed in the last salvage activity, so it is difficult not to be targeted by these pirates.
From November 7 to 16, 2008, Somali pirates hijacked more than 10 merchant ships in a total of ten days. On the 15th, three consecutive merchant ships were hijacked in one day, including the world’s second largest supertanker Sirius. It is reported that the illegal income of Somali pirates in 2008 could reach 100 million US dollars.
Although a large part of the hijacked fishing boats or cargo ships were hijacked because they encountered pirates at sea, many of them were actually targeted by the pirates in advance. As the pirate business is making money every day, sea transportation is quite busy.
For pirates, there is no difference between the workload of robbing an old cargo ship full of potatoes and hijacking a supertanker. So which ship is most profitable from hijacking is naturally the most concerned issue of pirates.
So now the Somali pirate organization has begun to send investigators to operate in places such as the Suez Canal. Use long-distance phone calls and the Internet to report shipping conditions in order to find the most plump prey.
In addition to investigators, Internet search is also a powerful tool for pirates. Using the search server to search for the name of the ship, you can easily obtain the ship’s schedule and related information, so that you can find a high-value target to start with, in order to win more ransom. In fact, Sirius was hijacked by pirates who had detected their whereabouts in advance.
In the process of hijacking ships, pirates mainly use speedboats as a means of boarding. However, such small vessels can only move near the shore. In order to obtain a longer trip, Somali pirates often adopt the mother ship battle group model.
Use a modified tugboat or freighter to carry multiple speedboats 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 away from the coast of Somalia could not avoid pirate attacks.
Pirate mother ships often have radars and satellite positioning systems. Once they enter the sea where the target may appear, they will turn on the radar to search. Although the accuracy of civil radar is not enough to lock the ship's speed and approximate volume, it can still be judged by the moving direction of the object on the screen whether it is the ship that you are planning to hijack.
When the target ship is found, the mother ship first judges its sailing direction and then pursues it. When approaching the target at a distance of 6-10 nautical miles, the speedboat can be launched for boarding operations. There are generally two ways to launch a speedboat. The most common method is to put the speedboat on the deck directly into the sea through a crane, and then start the motor to drive away.
In recent years, some pirate ships have modified their mother ships to manufacture movable hydraulic steel plates on their rear decks, so that once the speedboat needs to be released, the sloping plate is deployed, and the speedboat can slide into the sea like a slide.
Generally speaking, Somali pirates will dispatch 3-4 speedboats in a ship robbery and approach the target ship from both sides. And fired a shot to warn the ship being watched not to resist. During the boarding operation, two speedboats threw hooks or rope ladders to the deck at different positions on both sides of the ship, and another one or two speedboats were armed with guns at a distance of 100 meters from the target ship. When necessary, you can fire at any time the crew on the deck dared to resist.
After boarding the ship, the pirates will control the cockpit for the first time, lock all the crew into the bottom warehouse or concentrate on the deck, and then drive the hostages and the ship to the shore of the port under their control.
As the relevant investigation has been conducted in advance, and the ship owner can also be contacted directly through the captain. At this time, the pirate group will have personnel specifically responsible for negotiations, and require the shipowner to provide a certain amount of ransom before returning the hostages and the hijacked ship.
In the negotiation project, the general pirate group will show evidence of the hostage and the safety of the ship. The main content of the negotiation is the amount of the ransom, the time and location of payment, and the location and time of the delivery of the hostage.
Somali pirates generally rarely harm the hijacked crew, because it has always been for the purpose of extorting the ransom, and hurting the crew will mean credibility. In that case, the owner of the hijacked ship may not pay the ransom in the future.
And salvage ships like them can be regarded as high-value targets, especially when the salvage ships are known to have harvested, the attraction to pirates is even stronger.
Now they have to stay here for several days or even ten days, which is enough for the pirates to make various preparations. Whether they come from the waters of Somalia or the waters of Malacca, such a long time is enough.
So after the meeting, John went to Lei Tiantang to discuss the security of the salvage ship. Seeing that John had come to look for Lei Tiantang, Kayla and Lei Tiantang greeted him and went out to see the crew working~EbookFREE.me~ ? Looking for me now? Is there something wrong with the security work? "Lei Tiantang smiled and asked John after sitting down.
"It's such a boss. The sea area where our salvage ship is located is just close to the Somali pirates and the Malacca pirates. What's more, we exposed it during the last salvage mission, so the possibility of being targeted by the pirates is very high!
Moreover, we need to stay for a long time this time, so the pirates have enough time to prepare, and we may even face multiple pirates at that time!
Although the weapons you brought, boss this time, are not too few, but these weapons are all used up and they are not sustainable. If multiple pirates continue to harass us, our current number of rockets And the number of bullets is definitely not enough!
Such a situation will cause loopholes in our security work. So, boss, do you need to take the opportunity to replenish our security department with some more ammunition when there are no pirates here?
According to my experience, the probability of us being attacked by pirates is almost 90% or more, so it is definitely impossible not to add weapons and ammunition! "John explained the reason for his coming.