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After Powell arranged their respective jobs, all the employees started to work in various positions, and even the security companies were preparing. This time it seems that the salvage task needs to stay here for several times. The time of the day, and the action of salvaging the treasure, is very easy to attract the attention of the pirates.

Modern pirates are mainly distributed in two places, one is from the northeast Africa to southwest Asia, the Gulf of Aden in the northwest corner of the Indian Ocean.The other is the east and west sides of the Straits of Malacca in Southeast Asia.It is also said to be on the coast of East Africa in the western Indian Ocean and 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 7 to 16 November 2008, Somali pirates hijacked more than 10 merchant ships in ten days.On the 15th, three commercial ships were hijacked in a row, including the Sirius, the world's second-largest supertanker.There are reports that the illegal income of Somali pirates could reach 100 million US dollars in 2008.

Although a large part of the hijacked fishing or cargo ships were only hijacked due to the unfortunate encounter with pirates at sea, many of them were actually targeted by the pirates in advance.As the pirate business is struggling for money, the maritime transportation is quite 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 to hijack is naturally the most concerned issue of pirates.

So now the Somali pirate organization has begun to send investigators to the Suez Canal and other places.Use long-distance phone calls and the Internet to report shipping conditions in order to find the fattest prey.

In addition to investigators, Internet search is also a powerful tool for pirates. Using the search server to search for the ship's name, you can easily obtain the ship's schedule and related information, so that you can find a high-value target to start, to win more ransom.In fact, Sirius was captured by pirates in advance and then hijacked.

In the process of robbing ships, pirates mainly used speedboats as boarding tools.However, this small vessel can only move near the shore.In order to get a longer journey, Somali pirates often adopt the mother ship battle group model.

Use a modified tugboat or cargo ship to take multiple speedboats to sea.In this way, the radius of its activity can be extended to hundreds of nautical miles from the shore. In the past, the way of sailing away from the coast of Somalia could not avoid the attack of pirates.

Pirate's mother ship is often equipped with radar and satellite positioning system. Once it enters the sea where the target may appear, it will turn on the radar to search.Although the accuracy of the civilian radar is not sufficient to lock the data such as the speed and approximate volume of the ship, it can still be judged by the direction of the movement of the object on the screen whether it is the ship that it is preparing to hijack.

When the target ship is found, the mother ship first judges its sailing direction and then pursues it.When approaching the target distance of 6-10 nautical miles, you can launch a speedboat for boarding operations.There are generally two methods for launching a speedboat. The most common method is to hang it, directly put the speedboat on the deck into the sea through a crane, and then start the motor to drive away.

In recent years, some pirate ships have modified the mother ship to make movable hydraulic steel plates on their rear decks, so that when the speedboat needs to be dropped, the sloping plate is expanded, and the speedboat can slide into the sea like a slide.

Generally speaking, Somali pirates will dispatch 3-4 speedboats in a robbery, and approach the target ship from both sides.And fired a gun to warn the targeted ship not to resist.During the boarding operation, two speedboats throw hooks or rope ladders to the deck at different positions on both sides of the ship, and one or two speedboats are armed with guns at 100 meters away from the target ship.If necessary, you can fire at any time to shoot the crew on the deck who dare to resist.

After boarding the pirates, they will control the cockpit for the first time, and lock all the crew into the bottom cabin or concentrate on the deck, and then take the hostage and the ship to the port of the port under their control.

Since the relevant investigations have been carried out in advance, the shipowner can also be directly contacted through the captain.At this time, the pirate group will have a person in charge of negotiation to ask the shipowner to provide a certain amount of ransom to return the hostage and the hijacked ship.

In the negotiation project, the general pirate group will present evidence of hostages and ship safety. The main contents of the negotiation are the amount of ransom, the time and place of payment, and the place and time of delivery of the ship's hostage.

Somali pirates generally rarely harm the hijacked crew because it has always been aimed at extorting the ransom, and harming the crew will mean compromising credibility, so that 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 ship is known to have gained, the attraction to pirates is even stronger.

Now they have to stay here for a few days or even a dozen days, which is enough for pirates to carry out various preparations. Whether it is coming from the Somali waters or from the Malacca waters, such a long time is enough.

So after the meeting, John approached Lei Tiantang to discuss the security work of the salvage ship. When John came to find Lei Tiantang, Kayla and Lei Tiantang greeted them and went out to watch the crew work.

"What's wrong? Looking for me now? Is there something wrong with the security work?" Lei Tiantang smiled and greeted John after sitting down and asked.

"It is such a boss. The sea area where our salvage mission is located is almost the same as the Somali pirates and the Malacca pirates, not to mention that we were exposed during the last salvage mission, so there is a high possibility of being targeted by the pirates!

Moreover, we need to stay for a long time this time, so the pirates have sufficient time to prepare, and we may even face multiple pirates by then!

Although the boss has brought you enough weapons this time, but these weapons are used up and will not be used. Sustainability will not work. In the event of multiple pirates continuously attacking us, our current number of rockets And the number of bullets is definitely not enough!

Such a situation will cause a loophole in our security work, so the boss, do you think you need to take some ammunition for our security department when there is no pirate coming now?

In my experience, we are almost 90% more likely to be attacked by pirates this time, so it is definitely not possible to not add weapons and ammunition!"John explained why he came.