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Speaker 1: Oh Clary, Welcome to Software Radio again and it's your host,
Speaker 1: Phil Campion x D Squadron two s as on time
Speaker 1: and on target with Software Radio. So let's get it going.
Speaker 1: This week, We're going to talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: anti poison and what I was up to off the
Speaker 1: coast of Somalia. We're also going to debrief slightly the
Speaker 1: Great Club event which has just happened in Virginia, which
Speaker 1: was an absolute success. So we're gonna have a little
Speaker 1: look at what we did down there, because I was
Speaker 1: really really impressed with not only the staff that I
Speaker 1: met there for the first time, but also with the
Speaker 1: punters that came along and gave their rule and an
Speaker 1: absolutely splendid weekend with meself, Brandon and the guys. It
Speaker 1: really was. It really was something special. So let's start there.
Speaker 1: Should we should be debrief the Great Club Academy. Well,
Speaker 1: the Great Club Academy was exactly what it says on
Speaker 1: the tin. We waved over the to the race track
Speaker 1: in West Virginia border in North Carolina. You have to
Speaker 1: excuse my geography because it is absolutely poor. And I
Speaker 1: literally just jumped off a plane and that went where
Speaker 1: I was told. So yeah, really really really self experience
Speaker 1: and know you're just jumping off and into a new
Speaker 1: country and offer, well, let hit the race track. We
Speaker 1: met with the guys the night before, all staying in
Speaker 1: a hotel which was which was good to everybody under
Speaker 1: the same roof, sharing rooms, which was awesome because it
Speaker 1: meant you've got to meet people. You've got a bunking
Speaker 1: buddy straight away and somebody to watch your back. First
Speaker 1: night later we met in town, had a bit of
Speaker 1: eat which was great with some scoff You know me,
Speaker 1: I can't match five minutes about getting something in my stomach.
Speaker 1: So we had a couple of beers with the fellows.
Speaker 1: It was good. We've got to meet and everybody turned
Speaker 1: up to night. Myself random was their nick gofman or
Speaker 1: the guys and to all the guys, you're regulars on here.
Speaker 1: Everybody there and it was fun. We had a good
Speaker 1: night out and that the same next minute next morning,
Speaker 1: up bright and breezy in the mine and down in
Speaker 1: a race track. Well, we're breakfast together, which was again
Speaker 1: a very has an experience, and we first met the
Speaker 1: guys done at the racetrack and at our first lessons
Speaker 1: and other lessons covered really well phenomenal. I didn't stop
Speaker 1: learning the whole time I was there, let alone the Panthers.
Speaker 1: I've got to tell you, it was a really really
Speaker 1: good week. My stuff was all based around driving and
Speaker 1: techniques and E d C and the first Dage and
Speaker 1: all sorts of bits and pieces. But there was all
Speaker 1: sorts going on, and I think the guys that came
Speaker 1: down to have a look, and I'm telling you what
Speaker 1: the backgrounds on these people, they were from all over
Speaker 1: the place. We had we had a dentist day, we
Speaker 1: had a psychiatrist there, we had some we had some
Speaker 1: young guys with some young blood coming through which were
Speaker 1: which were enjoying themselves. Their old man brought them. Mostly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had we had people from across the city. It
Speaker 1: decided to come and try the Great Club, the Great
Speaker 1: Club experience with and actually you know, get down with
Speaker 1: the with the guys. So I talked them about the
Speaker 1: regiment of le First, which you're on line from here,
Speaker 1: of course, and we did some really cool things we
Speaker 1: did some we did some stuff on the ranges, and
Speaker 1: I've gotta tell you the guys that we're working with
Speaker 1: on the ranges, I learned stuff myself there which I
Speaker 1: hadn't really sort of that you know, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like for those lines, we don't get a lot of
Speaker 1: range time. So it was really good for me to
Speaker 1: get on the ranges and do some really cool stuff.
Speaker 1: And the guys there they knew that they knew the onions,
Speaker 1: as we say over our way, they knew what they
Speaker 1: were talking about. So and the extremely experienced guys on
Speaker 1: the range. In fact, I don't think I've been on
Speaker 1: the range for so many guys es well, was one
Speaker 1: of the guys out here. One of the games is
Speaker 1: I've probably take taking more lives than small pox. It
Speaker 1: really was. It really was some top people on the
Speaker 1: ranges so were experienced. Did some driving skills which was
Speaker 1: good on the skid man, you know in money or
Speaker 1: old American style police cars, when hacking running that did
Speaker 1: some stuff together, buddy driving new and that sort of stuff,
Speaker 1: blindfolded and always all the good stuff. So to more
Speaker 1: operated skills coming out to the fort and the look
Speaker 1: I say for me the lectures. The lectures were great.
Speaker 1: We learned all about d C American style, which of
Speaker 1: course I'm not American, so D see UK style, and
Speaker 1: we talked about various bits and pieces, and I gave
Speaker 1: a presentation on some stuff which you know I've done
Speaker 1: in a former life as a Special Forces operator, which
Speaker 1: I'm not going to spoil for a boat on here
Speaker 1: because if you want to see it, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to see it next time, because I really doing it
Speaker 1: again because it went down really really well. So talking
Speaker 1: about a few bits of pieces which I've done before,
Speaker 1: and like I say, for me, I never stepped learning
Speaker 1: from this time I got there till the time I left.
Speaker 1: And we've got some really really really cool people, like
Speaker 1: they're saying, anyone who was involved in that event, the
Speaker 1: Great Club Academy, thanks for coming. Thanks for taking the
Speaker 1: time out of your lives to come and spend some
Speaker 1: of it with me, because I really really genuinely enjoy
Speaker 1: the experience. It was a really top top weekend, so
Speaker 1: highly recommended, and I've got a feeling we'll be doing
Speaker 1: a few more in the future. And of course, those
Speaker 1: guys that went on that one, you were now the originals,
Speaker 1: you are the first ones. So to see a couple
Speaker 1: of your coming back one day and maybe even maybe
Speaker 1: even ended up as instructors. Who knows that the directing
Speaker 1: stuff that would be cool. And it's yeah, good, good
Speaker 1: stuff all around. That's un let's swing fire sight and
Speaker 1: and let's talk about let's talk about anti piracy. Now.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of guys out there would have
Speaker 1: been saying, yeah, we went down some marley and all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. The first fold I did, and
Speaker 1: it must have been about how many years ago. There
Speaker 1: must have been about ten years ago, ten or fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago. And I started taking calls of a friend
Speaker 1: of mine saying, food, you want to come down? Do
Speaker 1: you want to come down to the Gulf of Aiding
Speaker 1: the g r A and have a look at this
Speaker 1: antipiracy stuff that's going on. And I was a bit skeptical.
Speaker 1: Antipiracy were the pirates. And he explained to me that
Speaker 1: the Somali at the time, they weren't no more than
Speaker 1: Somali fishermen, you know, had suffered a few losses, but
Speaker 1: the fishing industry had been closed down. Here a couple
Speaker 1: of horse slips and a bit of bad luck, and
Speaker 1: they were now taking to the Robin tankers and holding
Speaker 1: the mostage, taking them down the range, mooring them up,
Speaker 1: and demanding huge sums of money for them. So that
Speaker 1: was the basic sketch in the early days that they
Speaker 1: say these guys were railroaded into it a little bit.
Speaker 1: It was you know, these guys, these guys were menaces.
Speaker 1: They were just trying to make some money. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you that now because a lot of
Speaker 1: people have got this picture of you know, really evil,
Speaker 1: horrible people. Want to be honest. It was a bit
Speaker 1: of piracy. And if I was hungry and you know,
Speaker 1: I couldn't get enough, and you know, you have to
Speaker 1: sometimes think to yourself, what would you do in that situation.
Speaker 1: Luckily I'm not in that situation. But like I said,
Speaker 1: I can AMPI fires if nothing else with the guys
Speaker 1: who were there at the time, and they really were
Speaker 1: just flip flop wearing local guys who were sheep board
Speaker 1: is and they're like they had no idea what they
Speaker 1: were doing with their weapons really, and our tactics were
Speaker 1: just to try and stop the ship, get on board
Speaker 1: and get a weapon in someone's face so they could
Speaker 1: have enough time to get the ship better thing and
Speaker 1: then start making negotiations. Now, over the time, it's obviously
Speaker 1: changed a little bit because people could obviously see what
Speaker 1: was going on in potential for big money. These people
Speaker 1: didn't want big money. I got to tell you, the
Speaker 1: first pirates I came across don't want big money. They
Speaker 1: wanted to be fed, they wanted to be warned. They
Speaker 1: wanted just some food and some some some supplements for
Speaker 1: their many. To be honest, but it wasn't happening, and that,
Speaker 1: let's say Ablefore, you know, the big guys have moved
Speaker 1: in behind them and as a more since sinister feel
Speaker 1: to what they were doing. But in the early days,
Speaker 1: it really was just a few guys on some skiffs
Speaker 1: with not very good weapons, flip flop wearing. It really was,
Speaker 1: you know, they weren't up too much whatsoever. But they
Speaker 1: were boarding ships. And so did that end. In the
Speaker 1: early days, you couldn't be armed. You didn't have any
Speaker 1: weapons on the ships at all. So what were we doing?
Speaker 1: But we were putting defenses on the ships. We were
Speaker 1: put in barbed wire, we were using bowrels, we were
Speaker 1: greasing the decks, and we were doing anything we could
Speaker 1: to stop people boarding, and I would tell captains of ships,
Speaker 1: do anything you can outrun them, keep going, because basically
Speaker 1: the way I looked at it in those early days
Speaker 1: was they don't have a lot of ammunition. They certainly
Speaker 1: haven't got a lot of fuel, and if you can
Speaker 1: outrun them or keep them shooting at you, they'll run
Speaker 1: out of one, two or that. So if you could
Speaker 1: make them shoot, we used to put dummies out and
Speaker 1: ultimate least, if you could get these people shooting their weapons,
Speaker 1: they'd be using up their ammunition and they'll be less
Speaker 1: chance of them using anything from the ship. In the
Speaker 1: meintrem you had flares if you were lucky. I'd seen carpholets,
Speaker 1: I've seen horsts on there. But you know, being being
Speaker 1: unarmed as a as a British person, there's nothing unusual
Speaker 1: to me. And I've been unarmed in some extraordinary situations
Speaker 1: before in other corners of the world that wasn't particularly
Speaker 1: worried about it. Like I'm saying, the plan would be
Speaker 1: to to get the car out of the way. You
Speaker 1: get them down where they couldn't be couldn't be a
Speaker 1: target to anybody, get them in the hold of the ship,
Speaker 1: getting them in the bottom into the citadels and literally
Speaker 1: try and outrun the pirates or stop them getting on board.
Speaker 1: And you do that with flares and nail bombs made
Speaker 1: of petrol, all sorts and stuff. It really was. It
Speaker 1: was like the old eight team days. It was like
Speaker 1: you know, you were you were welding stuff to the
Speaker 1: side of the ship, and my sort of stuff. And
Speaker 1: for a while it was quite good fun, I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you, enjoying it. We were making some good money
Speaker 1: as well. I mean, I mean the Swedish company I
Speaker 1: worked for originally when I first went down another plane
Speaker 1: eight and nine hundred dollars a day, which is more
Speaker 1: less unheard of nowadays. I remember my first other trip.
Speaker 1: I went down a Muscat for the friend of mine
Speaker 1: who kept phoning me up and he literally he says
Speaker 1: to me, says, there'll be some gear on the on
Speaker 1: the side of the on the dock, and I said, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll go to the gear. So I flew in the masket.
Speaker 1: I was met by the shipping company, gig, the agency
Speaker 1: we put in. We got down to the dock and
Speaker 1: I said to them, where's my heir, where's my gear?
Speaker 1: For the ship and the guy said, no gear here.
Speaker 1: I said, what do you mean, no gear here? He says,
Speaker 1: we don't have no gear for you. I said, I
Speaker 1: have gear, Barbia, I have some extra flares coming on.
Speaker 1: I've got lots of stuff for the ship because there's
Speaker 1: nothing here. So I phoned out my mate in England
Speaker 1: and I said to him, what mate, I says, what's
Speaker 1: going on? He says, he says nobody said it was
Speaker 1: going to be easy and he hung up. Unbelievable. And
Speaker 1: here I am on the dock. I managed to would
Speaker 1: eventually get the agent to disappeared the town and he
Speaker 1: comes back with one role with gardening wire and I'm
Speaker 1: not well. Jeez, great, thanks and we get this garden
Speaker 1: where we get on board the ship and the crew
Speaker 1: were phenomenal. We had Filipinos on my first ever ship
Speaker 1: and they were the bason had great control with the
Speaker 1: lads that were working, and we soon had this frame
Speaker 1: wide up, all the stairrails greased. And don't forget, we've
Speaker 1: done a lot of work on these ships. And if
Speaker 1: you look into my social media at big Fog dot
Speaker 1: com at Big Full Campion, you'll see some of the
Speaker 1: photographs of some of the ships that we prepared, and
Speaker 1: there was a lot of preparation, and don't forget, when
Speaker 1: you got to wherever you were going, all this stuff
Speaker 1: would have to come off. It would all have to
Speaker 1: be cut there and taken back, and all the guns
Speaker 1: and all the gunnals cleaned, and all the stairwears, all
Speaker 1: the grease we used to put on him to stop
Speaker 1: people climbing, all the anti climb stuff on the side
Speaker 1: of the ship. Everything, everything would have to come off
Speaker 1: and you'd have to start fresh. And those little guys,
Speaker 1: those little four partans were run round with all their
Speaker 1: cleaning equipment and literally sort the thing out. There were
Speaker 1: phenomenal people, so we worked really hard. And not to
Speaker 1: say for the first four or five trips we never
Speaker 1: really had an approach or anything. They used to be
Speaker 1: the internationally recognized transit card or where you could roll
Speaker 1: with other ships through the through the pirate waters. That
Speaker 1: was okay, but the pirates soon identify the either end
Speaker 1: of these transit corridors were good places to get you.
Speaker 1: And the first time my ship was over approached, I
Speaker 1: was actually when there of a captain from Russia and
Speaker 1: he was a drunk and all he did was drink,
Speaker 1: and he was petrified, and he'd scared his men, and
Speaker 1: his men were scared to go through the Golden Raiding.
Speaker 1: And we were coming back up north. We were coming
Speaker 1: through the gold radin but towards Egypt. So we're going
Speaker 1: up the way and we've come through and we're on
Speaker 1: towards the Bible ended, and I saw him the on horizon.
Speaker 1: I see a couple of little boats bobbing about them like, oh,
Speaker 1: they aren't they they're not much intent. And then I've
Speaker 1: seen them bump when the radar and then out towards us.
Speaker 1: Now the captain caesus at the same time as he does,
Speaker 1: and he goes into a complete and utter panic about things.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh God, here we go. So these
Speaker 1: things are getting closer, and I'm turning the captain and
Speaker 1: gaining We need more speed, we need more supedouses. Get
Speaker 1: this fing go and get the ship up. So he's
Speaker 1: radioing down the engineer in the in the room downstairs,
Speaker 1: in the engine room, and he's asking him for more speed,
Speaker 1: and he's coming back. We were saying like this is
Speaker 1: as much as I've gone. We're doing flating nats here
Speaker 1: and these gifts are probably doing on the radar, they're
Speaker 1: doing about sixteen to twenty knots. And as see, he's
Speaker 1: flat and his fings a little boats and it's about
Speaker 1: for for all them. Now we can see coming to
Speaker 1: the water ship and we're like, wow, here we go.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have our first account with the pirates. Sry
Speaker 1: what happens as well? They come level with the ship
Speaker 1: and the first one I know is they're familiar sound
Speaker 1: of a bit of Aco forty seven coming over the
Speaker 1: top of the ship, and their stays are not going
Speaker 1: to hit nobody. But we've stuffed the crew downstairs and
Speaker 1: it's just meself and the captain and there was one
Speaker 1: other security guy, but he was all he'd had some
Speaker 1: sort of malaria contract and he was completely out of it.
Speaker 1: So he's in bed. Tell myself. The captain and the
Speaker 1: first mate were upstairs and they're circling is down and
Speaker 1: I'm telling them, do not stop, do not stop, no
Speaker 1: matter what happens, do not stop. And we're getting it again.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. We're getting a few few
Speaker 1: few rounds outs and that sort of stuff, and I'm
Speaker 1: thinking that this is this is awful. Anyway, he goes
Speaker 1: to and we've we we've bunged a few flares out
Speaker 1: at them and that sort of stuff. And if we're
Speaker 1: we're not going to hit them with the floors. But
Speaker 1: they must have been getting low on out on on ammunition,
Speaker 1: because they're now slowing down with the rate of fire,
Speaker 1: and it was a nuratic rate of fire. They're just
Speaker 1: they're just playing and spranged. You know, I made it
Speaker 1: ain't no good to them. And I'm realizing this and
Speaker 1: I'm doing anything i can't to make them shoot some more.
Speaker 1: So on I'm waving at them, I'm sharing them a target.
Speaker 1: I'm doing Now, come on, guys, come on, don't give up. Now,
Speaker 1: choose a ward, you know what I mean. It was
Speaker 1: really funny. And anyway, they don't, and they get alongside
Speaker 1: and one of the skifts is coming in and he's
Speaker 1: trying to hook a ladder on and I'm now flowing
Speaker 1: nuts and bolts at this gigs and now at the
Speaker 1: end of the bridge wing you can imagine me on
Speaker 1: the thing. I'm leaning right over the edge of this
Speaker 1: ship and I'm flowing some nuts and bolts at him,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, God, he's gonna get on. He's
Speaker 1: definitely gonna get on. He's got a homemade ladder on
Speaker 1: his skiff and he's pointing it towards the thing, and
Speaker 1: his boat's going up and down in the wake of
Speaker 1: our ship, and I'm thinking it ain't gonna be long
Speaker 1: before he gets hooked on here. And anyway, sure enough,
Speaker 1: I'm now looking for stuff to float and we've done
Speaker 1: all the floors. I've got nothing to fire him. And
Speaker 1: he's right by the side of the ship, but right
Speaker 1: underneath the bridge wing, and I'm like, nah, this is
Speaker 1: gonna happen. He's eeasers are on. There are these geezers
Speaker 1: are coming. So I run back into the bridge when
Speaker 1: I have looked around, and in the corner of the bridge,
Speaker 1: the captain used to keep his cans of coke in
Speaker 1: a in a little fridge, a tiny little fridge, you know,
Speaker 1: one of those ones that you could probably get in
Speaker 1: your r V or on the back of your truck.
Speaker 1: So I entered the cokes out on the floor, grab
Speaker 1: the fridge out of the thing only above me, and
Speaker 1: run down to the bridge wing. Lean over and I'll
Speaker 1: see these pie was looking up at me now thinking
Speaker 1: what is he doing. And as I look up at me,
Speaker 1: I throwed his fridge with as much might as I
Speaker 1: could have a muster. I rattled his fring down the
Speaker 1: side of my boat, and it must be about forty foot.
Speaker 1: But by the time it's a fucking all boat. It
Speaker 1: is absolutely steaming towards them, and it doesn't do too
Speaker 1: much to the guy. I wish I did him on
Speaker 1: the eight. It would have absolutely killed him straight out,
Speaker 1: but it misses the guy. But HiT's the front of
Speaker 1: their thing, and it bakes off the davit that's holding
Speaker 1: their piece of rope with the ladder on, and it
Speaker 1: knocks the ladder all over the place, and the geese
Speaker 1: that it's holding the ladder, he falls back in the ship.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look on to ours properly, and it all
Speaker 1: comes off, and they find themselves drifting away. At these
Speaker 1: stage they look up at us and they think matters
Speaker 1: and they must have thought, we can't, you know, we
Speaker 1: we we we We've taken a bit of a bit
Speaker 1: of a bush in here. And they whirled away enough
Speaker 1: they must have thought, you know, you know, the lack
Speaker 1: of ammunition and the fact that it was going to
Speaker 1: take so long to get on board, and we're taking
Speaker 1: them further out the scene, now, further away from where
Speaker 1: they want to be. So luckily they must have had
Speaker 1: a time frame and stuff, and they turned away and
Speaker 1: off they went, and we were like, wow, that was close.
Speaker 1: That was really close, and made me really laughed. The
Speaker 1: captain turns, don't go, will You've done very wrong. You've
Speaker 1: done very wrong. You were flapping. You're flapping. Look at Budge.
Speaker 1: We've won't with no weeds. You were absolutely anyway. I
Speaker 1: let him have his moment with the glory. The ray
Speaker 1: led back to his boat when told him how we
Speaker 1: defended himself against pirates and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: We got off when we came back again on the
Speaker 1: next travel and a few morning it was quiet for
Speaker 1: quite some time after, but the operation started changing as
Speaker 1: far as the pirates were consumed, and now what they
Speaker 1: were doing, as they were getting more money beyond and
Speaker 1: they were getting better weapons. They were taking more guys
Speaker 1: in the theater, they were putting the skills on the
Speaker 1: mother ship so they could get more range. You were
Speaker 1: starting to see them maybe the other saw the Indian Ocean.
Speaker 1: The operation was getting a lot bigger as far as
Speaker 1: they were concerned. The money drops were getting bigger. The
Speaker 1: money was down to five six, seven, eight nine million
Speaker 1: they were getting for these ships. And the ransom, of course,
Speaker 1: is the crew. No one gives a ship about the ship.
Speaker 1: No one cares about the ship. They just want the crew.
Speaker 1: So things are developed, and funly enough, the wages were
Speaker 1: coming down. The wages were getting less. You were now
Speaker 1: getting a few floating armories and people were managing getting
Speaker 1: weapons on the ships and that sort of stuff. So
Speaker 1: the conditions were getting better, but the money was coming down.
Speaker 1: Now that's like I'm thinking, now, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be here any more because I ain't learning the right
Speaker 1: money anymore. So you know, I really was worsing me
Speaker 1: about it. I was like, I need to earn the
Speaker 1: right money. I ain't doing this. But I remember I
Speaker 1: took one trip on We've gone down, and we were
Speaker 1: Madagascar when I supported a mother ship coming towards us,
Speaker 1: and again the captain went in the milkdown, absolute miltdown.
Speaker 1: He had a complete enough of what he didn't want
Speaker 1: nothing to do it. So again we sent the credance
Speaker 1: to is. I was already young lad this time, and
Speaker 1: I remember we were screaming down this hatch to get
Speaker 1: more speed, more speed, and this mother ships coming up
Speaker 1: on us, and this ship and the Steve was quite chopping,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what saved the day. The city
Speaker 1: was extremely chopping. But this thing was on us now,
Speaker 1: it was locked on and it was coming in and
Speaker 1: our engine rooms pushing it and pushing it and pushing it.
Speaker 1: And we've gone from eleven or twelve knots, but his
Speaker 1: finger air is doing about thirteen point two. We get
Speaker 1: up to fourteen. But this thing is still closing and
Speaker 1: he's now close enough forced to bear to make people
Speaker 1: out properly on the back of his fing Yeah. Here
Speaker 1: they come, here they come, and we're like this, we're
Speaker 1: based and if this will get on board, we are
Speaker 1: in deeper traple because they want no weapons and I've
Speaker 1: got very very few defenses on the ship over what
Speaker 1: we normally do. But these people are coming equipped. They've
Speaker 1: got more than one ladder, they've got ropes, they've got
Speaker 1: a ks, they got built for weapons, they got that lot.
Speaker 1: We're like, oh no, this is a bad day to
Speaker 1: see anyway. I'm yelling and screaming at the engineer. More power,
Speaker 1: more power, more pay and he's running and I don't
Speaker 1: know what he's doing now. Now, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's got a donkey and he's hitting it, or he's
Speaker 1: flowing cold into or finest. But he manages to get
Speaker 1: us up to about thirteen point free firting point four
Speaker 1: knots and we start to pull away. And when I
Speaker 1: say pull away, I mean in the space for an hour,
Speaker 1: we'll probably gain about ten ms. It's insane. It really
Speaker 1: is Catton mouse. And all the time I'm yelling at him.
Speaker 1: I'm waving at the pirlots, I'm yelling at him. I'm
Speaker 1: waving at the pilots, I'm yelling at him. And eventually
Speaker 1: we started to pull away and we get a bit
Speaker 1: of decent distance in between us, and then they slow
Speaker 1: down and they screw around and they go the other way.
Speaker 1: They must have thought, note we can't catch them, or
Speaker 1: they running out fuel or whatever. I don't care. But
Speaker 1: they decided enough was enough and they disappeared. And I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you it was close. Anyway, we pulled away
Speaker 1: from there. He slowed the ship down as soon as
Speaker 1: we got outside of these people. And as we slowed down,
Speaker 1: I heard this a mighty boom and are grown, and
Speaker 1: we'll blunt one of our engines. And I've got a
Speaker 1: photograph of it and I'm gonna put it up on
Speaker 1: my social media next week. A great big black we
Speaker 1: were smoke climb out of our ship and we were
Speaker 1: now drifting. The engines had gone. I don't think myself
Speaker 1: if that had been two hours earlier, these barrates would
Speaker 1: now be running all over this ship. Anyway. You can
Speaker 1: imagine the captain, he didn't want nothing to do in
Speaker 1: the first place, is now absolutely running around this ship again.
Speaker 1: Anybody he can into that engine, went to mend these
Speaker 1: engines before all of these ships ree services again, the
Speaker 1: mother ships, and they came and have another goo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a very very very tense time as we
Speaker 1: run around this ship right and eventually, like I said,
Speaker 1: a guy got it going. But we never got up
Speaker 1: to full speed again. We only ever got up to
Speaker 1: about eight knots. We went last Madagascar, we've went up
Speaker 1: to our I think we went into Mombassa with this
Speaker 1: ship before. We've got some proper attention that it needed.
Speaker 1: And that's for that captain. He flew him from Mombassa
Speaker 1: said he done enough, said he wasn't taking the ship
Speaker 1: anywhere else. He left his job, and it was it was,
Speaker 1: it was a problem. You know that these crews didn't
Speaker 1: want to come into these areas. These areas were dangerous
Speaker 1: and if they got on board, although they were not
Speaker 1: killing you straight away, because you were the money you
Speaker 1: were the money shop, you WoT over after you were
Speaker 1: going to spend a long time in captivity. And the
Speaker 1: next ship we came across was actually in captivity, and
Speaker 1: we we met it as it came out of captivity
Speaker 1: after the money drop. And remember that the figures coming
Speaker 1: off this ship were absolutely disheveled. They've been on it
Speaker 1: for months years, I think they've been on it for
Speaker 1: and we got them off. It was the MV neck
Speaker 1: Nexus and we took that in the Mombassa. And I've
Speaker 1: never seen a ship in disrepair like it in all
Speaker 1: my days. It was a complete and utter mess. It
Speaker 1: really was a complaint and our mess. And we managed
Speaker 1: to get this fing refitted enough so that we could
Speaker 1: get a crawl on it and take it back across
Speaker 1: the way to Chittagong and we dumped it, actually dune
Speaker 1: the ship. They've had enough of it. We had cost
Speaker 1: them a fortune. But that's another story. That's for another day.
Speaker 1: I'll do the MV Nectus Nexus on another day because
Speaker 1: that really was that really was something else. So that's it.
Speaker 1: It's my introduction into anti piracy. We'll look a bit
Speaker 1: more about the MV next next US next time I'm on,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk a little bit about the motorcyl around there,
Speaker 1: the parent pilots which changed, and then the industry changed,
Speaker 1: and it did it change for the bar. Well, there's
Speaker 1: not so must piracy nowadays, but there ain't as much
Speaker 1: work either. And where there's no work, there's no fill.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that for sure. All right, So
Speaker 1: I've pulled away from the anti piracy for a bit
Speaker 1: because there's not that too much going on for us
Speaker 1: down there anymore. But for the time I did spend
Speaker 1: down there, I did enjoy myself. It was fun and
Speaker 1: I did make a little bit though as well. So
Speaker 1: don't forget I'm gonna look at the stuff dot com
Speaker 1: to doing nothing. There's some major stuff happening very very
Speaker 1: soon with these people. All right, It's all going to
Speaker 1: be fun. There's going to be some great stuff going on.
Speaker 1: And don't forget the great club that's where all the
Speaker 1: professionals get there gear. I get mine from there. You
Speaker 1: hit yours from there too. There's some great stuff, Honestly,
Speaker 1: the great club stuff I've had has been missed. It's
Speaker 1: in my car now. It's actually with my car and
Speaker 1: it goes everywhere with me, and I'll take it. You know.
Speaker 1: It's my DC. It's all a bits and pieces, all right.
Speaker 1: So don't forget bichers that everything we're doing here because
Speaker 1: it's cool, all right, And I'm sure i'd like to
Speaker 1: see you people on the next academy, all right, So
Speaker 1: let's see where it goes. I'm out of here for now.
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