Pirates, how comes somethings don't make the news?
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Dad just got back from Tanzania working on the rigs and had an interesting encounter.
A boat with 8 pirates on board decided to board the rig he was on and somehow didn't notice the 3 gun boats circling the rig protecting it.
One pirate was shot through the legs whilst the 170 rig workers were placed in the citadel (panic room for oil rigs) and when they called out a gun ship and it turned up with orders to take out all pirates, they decided life was better than death.
Since then, they were taken into custody and they gave up the tanzanian pirate base of 170 pirates all of which got captured, Im assuming the original 8 were tortured to get the info out of them and too right too.
After being told this I decided to have a look for this in the world news and can't find it, so why would something like this not be printed anywhere in the news?
A boat with 8 pirates on board decided to board the rig he was on and somehow didn't notice the 3 gun boats circling the rig protecting it.
One pirate was shot through the legs whilst the 170 rig workers were placed in the citadel (panic room for oil rigs) and when they called out a gun ship and it turned up with orders to take out all pirates, they decided life was better than death.
Since then, they were taken into custody and they gave up the tanzanian pirate base of 170 pirates all of which got captured, Im assuming the original 8 were tortured to get the info out of them and too right too.
After being told this I decided to have a look for this in the world news and can't find it, so why would something like this not be printed anywhere in the news?
sleep envy said:
Du1point8 said:
Dad just got back from Tanzania working on the rigs and had an interesting encounter.
excellent - I'm going out there next monthshould make the holiday nice and exciting
markCSC said:
Not sure, will have to find out if it was a drilling ship or a rig that he was on, plus it was recent as he doesn't stay out for that amount of time and just got back today, max time he is usually out is 4 weeks.Digga said:
sleep envy said:
excellent - I'm going out there next month
should make the holiday nice and exciting
Wife and I went to Kenya the just a week or two after the riots in Nairobi. The evidence of the trouble was all around; UN had taken over one of the hotels there and the gutted area of the shanty was visible as we caught the bush flight out of Wilson airfield, but despite 'warnings' about travel and all was fine. I think I'd feel a little differently about staying anywhere coastal in Kenya or Tanzania at present though.should make the holiday nice and exciting
ben_h100 said:
OP, what does your dad do?
Always thought about working the rigs when I leave the forces. (Difficult to get into, I know
)
Dad started off as a mud logger (he had geology degrees) and then moved onto directional drilling and now multilateral drilling, sometimes when called upon he becomes the company man for the area in places like Congo, Gabon and Cameroon... They only shipped him to Tanzania because the company wanted to win the contract and when the oil companies hear he's on the job they prefer to work with him than the rivals.Always thought about working the rigs when I leave the forces. (Difficult to get into, I know
)I wanted to join him 13 years ago but he persuaded me not to stating there was not the distance in it for my life time and I still think he was lying so I didn't take the same decision he made and put him self in harms way.
He was at Baroid, then it became Sperry Sun and now its haliburton that bought them as the service team for the main oil companies.
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