Bullet holes in the forward bridge windows.
Some new video has surfaced showing damaged sustained by the offshore supply vessel, MV Walvis 7, following an attack offshore Nigeria.
Crew members of the Walvis 7 fell victim to a gang of pirates on February 7 near the Port of Onne in Nigeria, however the video description says that the damage shown was following an attack from sometime in 2012.
During the attack in February, a group of twelve heavily armed men stormed the vessel and kidnapped two crewmembers including the Ukrainian chief engineer.
The video does a good job of depicting the extremely violent nature of the attacks in the region. A related story about the surge of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea can be found at: Nigerian Offshore Attacks Surge As Pirates Advance, Violence Increases
Wow, pirates with guns… Shocking! How about armed white guys? You know, the intended victims… Might slow down the attack…
but what if someone gets hurt? can't have that kinda publicity…. hahahaha
If you plan on arming people they need to have training. I hear there is a good facility in Lancaster.
So sorry, can’t send any US assets due to Sequestration. Merchant vessels were armed in the 19th and 20th century against the very same problem, violence at sea. Re-arm the merchantmen once again.
Personally know of three companies that have armed escorts.
Trouble is that if it is made public, they can get raided by the really big "pirates" that call themselves "government" for weapons shipping…
Go figure, who is doing more damage and harm to our crew.
Every registered ship should have a mounted deck gun.
A "trojan Horse" would be quite fun…like an "old" russian spy trawler…armed to the teeth…and can do 35 knots…..looking like a tramp….
I did this for a few years…..we only did 24kts though. The word got out and the only thing that ever came close was a fisherman sleeping on a raft, they hit him with the LRAD to wake him up.
Until when the. Merchants mariners are goig to acept this. Do not go to the Gulf of guinea , if you are not allowed to have a good Bunch of Arms and amunitions. to defend them self. against Pirates
This has been going on for years and now you people are just hearing about it. It will work it's way out the Nigerian way… don't panic.
This has been going on for years and now you people are just hearing about it. It will work it's way out the Nigerian way… don't panic.
This has been going on for years and now you people are just hearing about it. It will work it's way out the Nigerian way… don't panic.
Thanks Mike for the report and photo.. My question is was an RPG used in this attack… If so it would be the first time that I have known of them being used them in Nigeria by these pirates. Also who was shot? Most are backed by their oun Goverment. Some years back they got MEND (Pirates) to lay down their wepons and sent them of to STCW schools with the promis of jobs…The Jobs never came….. so now they know what to shoot at in the wheelhouse now…
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