This is how cargo ships fight pirates WITHOUT GUNS

0:00 Intro
1:04 Anti-Piracy Equipment
1:56 LRAD
3:10 Anti-Boarding Trailing Wires
3:46 Water Cannon
4:58 Razor Wire
5:35 Anti-Piracy Tools vs. Houthi Rebels
7:36 Piracy Goals in Somali Waters vs. Gulf of Guinea
8:36 How Commercial Ships Avoid Pirates
9:22 Why aren’t cargo ships armed?
10:15 Navies Against Piracy

#NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs

Music:
Truce No More - Dream Cave
Signal to Noise
Head Games - Max Anson
Black Bullet - Deskant
For Those Who Fight - Dream Cave
Skipping Class - Birdies
Mortal Blow - Dream Cave
Beyond the Mountains - Experia
Hordes - Jo Wandrini

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[avocado]

firing an rpg at a navy vessel is like aggroing the enemy 40 levels above you and then getting one shot.

[robertgoodwin]

Can we take a moment to admire the pirates unfazed determination to fuck around and find out

[novemberalpha]

Pirates: "HANDS UP OR WE WILL FIRE."
Boat's Captain: "YOU HANDS UP OR WE WILL WATER."

[stat]

time : 2am
Me : Time to go to bed
Me 2h later : "This is how cargo ships fight pirates "

[thecommissaruk]

"Hey look, a Navy missile cruiser! LeTs roB iT!"
The smooothest of brains.

[yamatotakeru]

Never would i imagine pirate deterrent would include MLG horn lmao

[ComiCherro]

"sir!, there are pirates attacking us! what do we do!"
"flood the ocean"
"roger sir!"

[Mokhtar]

As a full time pirate, I thank you for sharing this.

[chrisholmgren]

I operated a container ship in pirate waters from 2004 through 2010. In 2005 we were alarmed to see a report from the International Maritime Bureau that there were 3 attempted boardings in a week. That was later surpassed by 5 attempts a day in the following years. The insurance industry wrote a letter demanding the world’s navies do something. A western military spokesman said that they can’t be responsible for 6, 000 square miles of ocean and that ships had to protect themselves. The insurance companies responded by voiding any policy where the crew was armed - it’s better to pay out a small ransom than for the pirates to view the crew as an obstacle and then have to pay 20 death benefits. The international community later established the IRTC where navy ships could respond to a vessel being attacked (if they felt like responding) - I’m not kidding.

When I was home I would tell my friends about the piracy threat. They were shocked to hear and wondered why it wasn’t in the news. I said, because an American ship hasn’t been hit yet. Then in 2009 the Maersk Alabama was attacked and we all began to know about piracy in the 21st century. In 2010 I went through pirate water twice a month and there was at least one mayday every transit, but I had 10 meters of freeboard and could do 23kts. Those poor bastards with 5 meters of freeboard and could only do 13kts were screwed.

I once was turning north into the Red Sea when I saw a thousand small skiffs milling about and a German frigate leaving the Red Sea at dusk. I called the frigate and asked, don’t you see all these skiff and that dusk is a time for pirate attacks. The frigate responded that the skiffs appeared to be fishing. The ship I just passed sent out a mayday an hour later and was taken by pirates.

It may have gotten better, but it really sucked for us at one time.

[womble]

Some do, in the UK. You can hire people with 20 mm cannons to protect your ships. They have licences for these things.

[GlurglePop]

Contractors with guns cost a hell of a lot. And pirate raids are very uncommon statistically. It’s not financially profitable for the shipping giants to take on the additional cost and liability.

[xuevgermanist]

6:55
Pirates *enter ship*
British Navy *arrives*
British Navy, "Well, good sirs, do you happen to know what we have been doing with pirates historically?"

[JerkStoreAssistManag]

The quality of your videos keeps getting better and better! Good work!

[orrax]

4:45 the snake hose thing used to be a kids toy but it got recalled for killing too many kids

[zacksstuff]

They're shooting AKs without earpro, so idk how much difference an LRAD is gonna make.

[penitent]

some private security operate by waiting outside of port in international waters with a chase boat or tender sized vessel that can be winched on board and gets picked up by the ship. then when they arrive at one of the destination ports, they take all weapons with them and go onto the boat and sits in international water while the ship goes in to port, then the ship would pick them up again on the way out. that way the weapons never enter sovereign borders.
Also for one way journeys or if the ship only hired for part of their route, once nearing the last port the security guards would just chuck the weapons overboard into the ocean just before entering sovereign waters, ride the ship into port and take a flight back home. cost of the weapons would be built into the fees.

[TheSaddlar]

Imagine when the pirates shot at the navy ship it just turned its giant cannon towards their boats

[zynski]

Like breaching a castle - except the castle defenders have no bow and arrows.

[fearthehoneybadger]

The problem with guns is that many countries won't allow armed merchant ships in their ports.
That can be solved by having craft placed at specific points to allow armed guards to embark and disembark outside of territorial waters.

[lyedavide]

I would suggest using extremely powerful IR and UV lasers. This will seriously damage the eyes of any pirate because the lasers would be invisible to them and they would therefore be unaware that they are being blinded until they become blind. Bad luck for the pirates but at least the ship's crew wouldn't have to kill anyone. A powerful narrow beam microwave emitter could also be a viable alternative.