re: #414 Obdicut

There isn’t any easy solution. Life’s like that sometime.

This is your grand plan? Against guys with RPGs and machine guns, three guys with guns are going to effectively defend a giant tanker?

You’re really not getting the whole “threat of death isn’t a deterrent” thing, are you?

I think they need to be armed to fight off the pirates, yes. What didn’t you get about that?

Do you actually know how far offshore fishermen fish? I don’t.

Did I say easy? Did I say one approach only?

A large modern ship or double hulled supertanker is in little danger from an RPG, particularly when the shooter can be seen from miles away, and coming by radar, and picked off by a sniper at far beyond the RPG range.

The reason it doesn’t happen that way is that everyone is scared of being sued for killing innocent fishermen who just kept an RPG as self defense.

You don’t get the no profit as a deterrent, do you?

So now you imagine the pirates taking their own people who do some fishing as hostages, and think the fishermen need to be armed to protect themselves, do you? What’s the ransom going to be in that case? 5 gallons of warm snapper?

Yes, I know that small boats fishing hundreds of miles offshore in deep water makes no sense.