This is how cargo ships fight pirates WITHOUT GUNS
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2024
- 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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firing an rpg at a navy vessel is like aggroing the enemy 40 levels above you and then getting one shot.
I'm surprised they only returned fire with small calibre guns, and not the larger naval guns.
@@nicolaj9510 they cost more per shot
@@nicolaj9510Lol, imagine firing 2 ton granades at a 200kg boat.
Yes, that would be the american thing to do.
Yes, wtf are these guys thinking. The stupidity of this is astounding.
@@arjensmit6684Sadly all our battleships are decommissioned.
Can we take a moment to admire the pirates unfazed determination to fuck around and find out
well I mean look at them....IQ isn't their strong suit.
They’re not exactly going after heavily armed targets now are they?
er, no.
they're gutless pissants taking on largely unarmed civilian vessels.
@@justanothergmailaccount1353 You didn't watch the video did you? They literally attacked a US navy missile cruiser and its escorting destroyer, thats maybe the second heaviest armed type of boat on the planet, and a member of the worlds largest navy. If they'd used a sea mine or something it would be an act of terror, but they used rifles and one RPG, its like trying to arm wrestle a freight train, not big brain behavior.
@@derek8564bro no. IQ has nothing to do with it. They're starving to death and have no opportunities to better themselves. I'm not excusing their actions, but you have to understand it's desperation, not stupidity.
"Hey look, a Navy missile cruiser! LeTs roB iT!"
The smooothest of brains.
*Checks history books*
Honestly... sometimes it works.
With three O's
Reminds me of a VLDL skit "Let's mug em"
The most desperate of people
It's like robbing Chuck Norris
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.
I think your comment was cut off.
@@chungusbooper doesnt look cut to me
Did your company ever hire on private maritime security contractors as things started to really get dangerous?
@@WorldxTracer That wasn’t an option at the beginning. The original recommendations was to stay 75 miles offshore, then 100, then 200 and then 600 because they started using mother pirate boats. We followed best practices to harden our vessel with fire hoses and nets to deflect being boarded. My advantage was speed and freeboard, until one day we blew a lubricating injector off the #7 cylinder and had to stop just South of Aden Yemen. I notified UKMTO of my situation and doubled my lookouts. We were dead in the water for the hour it took to make the repair and a bit of time to get 70,000 tons back up to speed, all the time looking out for a little boat that could close on us in 20 minutes. We lucked out as it was a mildly rough day at sea so the pirates weren’t around. I was buzzed by a U.S. Navy P3-Orion while the engineers made quick repairs, which made me feel very proud. UKMTO posted that ships with speeds greater than 15kts and freeboard greater than 8 meters hadn’t been boarded, so the low and slow vessels were at greatest risk.
@@chrisholmgren1595 Wait... so the pirates were... using carrier tactics, sending over scout boats along the sea lines and then sending teams to capture vessels, so they were becoming professionals...
Also with low freeboard ships mainly being tankers... chances are we in EU were suffering the most from these attacks.
Never would i imagine pirate deterrent would include MLG horn lmao
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A better pirate deterrent would be allowing merchant ships to arm themselves. You know, like has been proven time and time again throughout the entirety of written history. But hey what do I know? I'm just an asshole with half a brain and an inkling of literacy.
brings me back to the mlg era@@bryanfranco9597
GET PISSED ON!
-cargo vessel
Actually explosive Diarrhea is more effective as a deterrent.
Spraying from the waste tank isn’t a terrible idea.
@@loudtim265 Yeah. lol
"If you don't want sewage on ya, stay away!"
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time : 2am
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Lmao literally me rn
The quality of your videos keeps getting better and better! Good work!
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.
Cost of doing business. Cheaper when they are on staff.
Also pirates can sue a company if the lethal force used against them and demand compensations 😕
You think somali pirates will sue multimillion/billion dollar shipping companies?@@imantsjansons5009
Yeah pirate lives aren't worth the cost.
@imantsjansons5009 the world reaction to them trying to sue should be 😂😂😂😂😂🤡
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?"
Russian Navy literally firing at the merchant ship to scare the pirates lmao
Prirate, "No"
British Navy, "Hire them to rob our enemies, want that job?"
the british navy were no better than pirates historically
@@afj810 The British navy was full of pirates actually, they just called them "privateers".
@@_extrathicc Now there's an idea!
"sir!, there are pirates attacking us! what do we do!"
"flood the ocean"
"roger sir!"
Underrated comment 😂😂😂
Pirates have Migs and Apatchi .sir what shoud we do ? Rise Palestine flag
The main problems with giving the crew weapons:
1. If they fail to stop them from boarding the boat but manage to kill a couple of them, guess what happens to the crew.
2.Flags of convenience, Countries like Panama arent going to give ships sailing under their registration permission to carry weapons because Countries would start blocking ships with Panama registration from entering their ports.
Which would ruin the whole "Flags of Convenience" thing for Panama
Not to mention, it would enrage the Somalis even further. Moral and legal complications to follow, considering (whether on what to believe or if its true or not) that these foreign fishing companies are what led to that issue in the first place because no one's patrolling the waters due to the civil war (though that couldn't be the only factor at play here)
Somali piracy is dead, and has been for years. The UN anti privacy action also lowered the pressure from illegal fishing in Somali waters and the fish has actually come back a little, thus fishing is actually an option now for the people with boats.
The Houtis are not pirates, they are attacking ships/trade for a political reason. Ie it's a war. A whole other can of worms
They could also get sued, by sacraficing a small ship and letting it get near a large ship and feigning ignorance that the small ship didn't understand the instructions and got to close to it. Because in the end, there is no laws concerning boats getting near each other.
4:45 the snake hose thing used to be a kids toy but it got recalled for killing too many kids
Had a loose hose with air spewing everywhere. Scary stuff indeed.
Water Wiggle, by Wham-O!
What was it called, cause that's hilarious!!
It looks like it didn't get recalled.... It got *repurposed*.
@Sai.Hottari it's not bad PR it's just an unscheduled rebranding.
Some do, in the UK. You can hire people with 20 mm cannons to protect your ships. They have licences for these things.
You forgot to atleast give some respect and credit for THE INDIAN NAVY , for successfully thwarting some some of these attacks lately and safely returning the held hostages , without seeing the nationality of the crew (A perfect example of love for humanity and world harmony)
Why are Indians so self absorbed?! Other countries have been doing this for years but as soon as the Indian navy just shows up you want praise 😂
The Indian military is a growing modern force, can't deny that.
Love India 🇮🇳 even though I’m not Indian but that’s so nice of them 😊😊 India saved many lives and lots of money that day
Respect and credit for what the west has been doing for decades?
@@DeltaEntropygenocide?
I never thought that I would ever comment this under a such a random video title, BUT: I've asked myself this for years!
Thank mate, great video!
This is why I wouldn't be surprised if we get the return of the Q-ship--a merchant vessel that hides a plethora of machine guns and small-caliber cannons. If the pirates get too close, they're going to get hit by a something like an M242 Bushmaster gun.
CIWS more funni
@@user-vt2cr8qd1b Private! remove that direction!
"aye aye sir! removing that direction!"
Can you commit a warcrime against pirates?
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo that would be so mean and unethical! Killing people who are trying to kill you is WRONG!!!!11!11111
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.
*Pirates raiding by sea*
Ships: *uses barbed wires and water cannons*
Houthis: Not sure what that’s gonna do
Houthies took pirates business to another level
They should have used the tactics that was used on the Houthis, against Somalis and other pirates before and it would have been dealt with.
Oh wait.... No.... ...
@@ROBLOXGamingDavidI think glassing should be considered a valid option.
Until the oil runs out, then Saudi Arabia is on its own.@@landleven1088
Well, they are army, not pirates.
They're shooting AKs without earpro, so idk how much difference an LRAD is gonna make.
TIL AK-47s are one or two decibels louder than a jet engine on average
Though, I think the difference is in the sustained noise vs one short noise with every shot
@@BierBart12 I've shot my AK without earpro a couple times, definitely loud enough to ring your ears, definitely a dumb thing to do, but yea there is a big difference between short vs sustained. I can still hear ok though.
Decibels isn't the only factor when making sonic deterrents, frequency matters too. An absolutely shrieking 4khz @ 160DB at the source, the likely area for suffering hearing damage stretches all the way out to 75m. And that's not even mentioning the fact that gunshots will mostly only affect hearing maybe give you a ringing headache if it's a particularly big round, but the LRAD is designed to shake up your entire body.
I think you will find that it is the "certain frequencies" that are used that do it. Though I doubt they will use brown noise.
LRADS can make you vomit and give you bad headaches at close range or if your being blasted by it long enough
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.
Someone should start a rental service. When you enter pirate infested waters, there's a boat where you can rent a bunch of guns and turn them back in at a second boat when you leave the area at the other side. Sounds like a nice bussiness to me.
It can be solved by cutting off trade until they agree to allow armed merchant ships.
@@arjensmit6684 That was my suggestion.
Yes because what could possibly go wrong with floating arsenals of weapons?
It can be solved by not doing business with country's that are against basic human rights like to the right to self defense.
My father works for the merchant Navy and he once explained me exactly this, how to fight pirates without weapons. For him, the easiest method is to hire a security guard or two until the zone is crossed. Back in 2006, when he was a chief officer on whatever ship he was working on, it was actually attacked by Somali pirates, despite the avoidance measures taken by the crew. He tells that everyone in the crew was beat up really bad and after that they robbed the captain's room and left, and then the crew had to pay the company for the losses. Almost after 18 years now, some days back, his ship went through that pirate infested zone again, but this time he as a captain had urged the company to hire a security guard. His ship crossed that EXACT same area where another Indian ship was hijacked by pirates and then the Indian Navy had to come to the rescue. He was dumbfounded when I told him this. Merchant Navy sailors are the unsung heroes of the world's economy...
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.
Yeah they are sadly not allowed according to the Geneva Suggestion.
@@TheStygianlasers are banned cus they too op lol
@@TheStygianit's only a war crime if you are at war, fighting off pirates is not a war
Ok, Dr. Evil
@@therecruitking1623"The Geneva convention doesn't apply to civilians" is a wild take.
Its not what you think.
True
Fr so true
It is. Everytime.
I did not have a thought about this. Since thoughts are past tense of thinking (As in I just had a thought Vs I am thinking) I guess I did not think to start with.
Conclusive proof that perhaps my thoughts are not a byproduct of thinking.
It was exactly what I thought. Arming a bunch of sailors is a bloody stupid idea and very likely to get them killed.
If piracy is going to be an issue I am surprised we are not using convoy tactics. A single frigate or destroyer could effectivley defend a dozen or so large container ships, particularly if it had an onboard attack helicopter.
The pirates would get skilled and well equipped enough to succeed sometimes then you would have worse pirates to deal with
@@nothanks9503what kind of pirates have firepower to take on a modern Destroyer? Usually a DD will only use small arms fire against these guys, but if push comes to shove then they will use their bigger guns, and no hand held weapon on a raft is going to be able to compete with that
Because it costs a lot of money
@@cat_clan_leader I mean I’m not trying to give any idea but that’s just how it is necessity is the mother of innovation and some glass bottles and gasoline can still take down a tank today
@@nothanks9503 molotovs only work on a tank if it's badly positioned, terrain plays a vital role. If it's out in a clear open area then they don't work nearly as well. The reason they work is because they can stall/ruin the engine through the vents, or cook the crew if it manages to find its way inside the camped compartment, neither scenario really applies to a Destroyer
A warship has the entire flat open sea, it's going to be kind of hard to sneak some kind of improvised explosive to it. And even if they do end up heavily damaging a ship, it will give that government justification to use heavier force against these pirates than just a single DD
But they are welcome to try
Like breaching a castle - except the castle defenders have no bow and arrows.
HELICOPTER! HELICOPTER!
Well, technically they do have a bow. But it's really big. And part of the ship. So impractical by all means (for defense, that is. It's totally practical for keeping your ship afloat though).
Castles were usually sieged without combat, people don't want to starve to death.
Defenders have no bow and arrows but their castle can move and some of them pretty damn fast, a lot of pirate raids fail because the merchant ships can outrun or outlast the small motorboats with limited fuel and no ocean-going capabilities.
Good video overall, but you're mistaken about the main point: cargo vessels routinely used armed guards when traversing the Gulf of Aden. Depending on the route, they are picked up outside the piracy area and they get off the vessel once it has safely transited or joined a convoy. I know this because I worked in the industry, and we regularly paid companies to provide armed guards expressly for this purpose.
Some do, and the footage is just fantastic to watch.
Not What you think doesn’t understand but when u post u brighten up people day I just want to say thanks for that gse
4:57 when you drop the shower head
As a full time pirate, I thank you for sharing this.
Well made video! Thank you.
Those few nutheads trying to take on US Navy was funny lol
"Let me remind you why the US Navy was even invented!"
The modern us navy (the one originally with the 6 frigates) was formed to protect their merchant vessels from pirate raids. They remember their roots
Probably high AF on khat.
Some electric motors with chain or wire flails would work wonders.
That would be potentially gruesome but quite effective indeed
These boats are like a thousand feet long.
I was thinking more along the lines of the giant swinging wall axe from Game Of Thrones
effective yes, ethical? no!.
@@medievalwebman2917 Why not, it’s simply self defense, no one forces them to try come on board.
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In Somalia, it's apparently considered a proper job, being a pirate. (EDIT, the pirate in question was from Nigeria, not Somalia). A few years back, a boatload of the scum came under fire from a danish navy vessel that patrolled the waters for pirates. The boat was sunk, and a few of them lived. One lost a leg, he and his family are now settled for life in Denmark, sustained by the danish tax payers. The navy officers in command were almost charged for improper conduct during the incident. What a world.
So the pirate who got settled in Denmark won that game of Russian roulette 😂
@@gentlemanvontweed7147 I guess he did. He hasn't won the hearts and minds or pity of any danes, though. May his other leg catch gangrea. Scumbag.
Wtfffff
No quarter. Wth happened to that tradition? Give no quarter to pirates.
@@RunFromCities Yeah, that sadly doesn't fly in modern days. This one got set up with nice, roomy quarters, wheelchair accessible of course.
Haven't watched the video yet but a lot of ships do carry guns. But only at sea.
Before making port they offload the firepower to a second vessel offshore.
They don't. They carry armed guards who embark and disembark in international waters. No shipping company is going to give out guns to their slave wage crews.
Thank you! This was really interesting and fun to watch and learn from!
and wonder if can use sound and frequency to control, onetime someone wanted a ride and they got in the car and i turned on a song and they were like "oh hell no" let me out right now i dont want the ride. so meaning with right music adn frequencys you can trigger ppl to do or not do things?
That rocket hole looks like a good way to breach the ship's defense
Not really. Those boats are made to take much more punishment than a single old rocket
In that instance the would have just gotten stuck in a giant tank welded shut.
enty.. not sink it@@cat_clan_leader
LoL yeah, those pirates who attacked the US Navy must have been drunk. Personally, if I were a pirate, I'd run away from anything bigger than a US Navy rowboat. Even then, I'd have to decide whether attacking that rowboat was really worth it.
Probably not cause it’s gonna have a machine gun and one thing you don’t do it touch an American naval ship
Probably high on khat.
To be honest I think your chances of dying is higher with the Navy row boat or small boat. With the Ship they know there is basically nothing they can do. But the boats there is a small chance they could harm someone so they would take them out before they got close. Like really what would they done if they actually got on the ship 😂. Maybe the pirates just wanted a tour of the ship 😅
@@EvanBlack11 considering the gonzalez had a crew of roughly 280 sailors, they wouldn't have lasted long if they had successfully boarded... It was lose lose no matter how it turned out for the pirates... They either get shit on by the gonzalas, or by some strange miracle actually win and take the gonzalez, just for uncle sam to get Extremely upset and end up educating them on how destructive cruise missiles are.
According to another comment, they were high on something called khat, and they became erratic on the lifeboat because they ran out and started going through withdrawal
I believe the teachers being able to carry guns is an optional legal stance. Not mandatory. They can if they are able and want to. Not made to. Similar to the crew, the legality of having one is what they want to solve. More like if the crew wanted to they could, the multiple countries makes it tougher.
New Wipeout course looking fire
Fire & bullets would definitely work though right?
It's incredibly easy to keep pirates from coming aboard.
But apparently everyone is too scared and/or in favor of majorly over complicating the situation.
I am the captain now
About the speakers, they aren't any old speakers. LRADs are the equivelent of an audio laserbeam: it is very focused sound. That is why it is so loud and such a good deterrent. People describe being targeted by an LRAD as the noise coming from their own head.
It would probably be cheaper if they just sprayed 1$ bills at them it would be impractical for the pirates to pass up the money they would have to stop and collect the dollars and could only carry a few hundred dollars before the wet dollars became too heavy
First reasonable idea
@@oldspicey6001 I bet it works
Why did i laugh so hysterically at that 911 call shot of the phone? Laughed so freaking loud. 1:01
Dude its insane that these boarders just filmed lel.And in a great qualtiy too.
Pirates upping their game to helicopter intrusion just brought a whole new level to the game. Boats only monitor on the X and Y axis, now they gotta watch the Z axis too, and even still, they gotta track it from a long ways away!
Isn't the Y axis like the vertical axis?
@@maximeleninja4029 When viewing a 2D space you only use the X and Y axis, 2D space here being the ocean, North, South, East, and West. In a 3D space you add the Z axis, the axis coming right at or away from the viewer, as viewed in a 2D space. So, in the case of the "2D" ocean, the sky and deep sea below. This is what I was referring to. Granted, yes, with sonar, I believe ships are also monitoring the -Z axis, but not so much the +Z axis (the sky).
If this piracy is such a big deal can we not just implement DRM into the ships?
DRM doesn't and hasn't ever worked. Piracy reigns supreme!
They can pull a capcom and implement DRM 10 years after the piracy took place.
Love the tangle part
Your comparison of asking teachers to carry firearms is an interesting comparison. In both cases the idea is not to simply arm all teachers or in this case all crew members. The idea is make training available and anyone who has completed training, or who has prior police or military experience can choose to carry a firearm. In addition you would also hire specific security personnel for this purpose and to oversee ongoing training. One reasonably trained sniper would be a hell of a deterrent.
But keeping teachers disarmed has worked out so well in the past!
Yeah, how dare you bring logic into what is clearly supposed to be an emotional discussion.
@@harrkevno it's a stupid idea. Texas has been trying to get armed teachers in whole for over a decade and you see how well that works out.
It's never what we think
Just once, could it be what I think? 😭
It was exactly what I thought.
It's exactly what I think. US ships are the most available to pirates now because all of their crew are now disabled, gay and trans. So in case of pirating a ship, they just give up and start f**ing eachother, while the pirates can loot around. Simple
There was a Japanese anime called Tactical Roar where there were PMC naval ships that companies can hire for protection and escort through the waters. Unrealistic but shed light that it may also help in deterring piracy.
Remind me of black lagoon scene too
Some ships do hire PMCs, but they live on the ship rather than a separate vessel.
@@muhazreenwhat a fantastic show.
dont need to tho. armed PMCs agents on board are enough every time. but it's an expensive service
9:57 That is why companies are hiring armed security. A firearm is a tool, it is largely useless and dangerous if the person possessing it does not have training on how to use it.
interesting and great mechanism my dad work for a shipping company taking grain. one day the ship went throught somalia he put a high voltage electricity wire all across the ship and went to sleep.
As for your can of worms - you made your point very well.
Thank you for this compelling story and look into how this has been working
As for that can of worms, allowing teachers to carry is not mandating that they must. If some want to and feel that it is their responsibility, there is no good reason why it should be prohibited if they are competent and their gun is properly secured and concealed on their person. If other teachers don't want to, and don't feel it is their reasonability, it was not proposed that we force them to.
What I don't get is why at least some modern pirates don't wear eyepatches and other classic pirate accessories. I mean, if you're going to be a pirate, be a PIRATE.
Whats next, yarr matey?
Makes them easier to spot
@@eeg-rh7jv as if it's not easy to spot a small-ass boat with a dozen of armed men on board rapidly approaching your vessel, tho
I guess they could make a burglary move with putting on the accessories during their sail. Would've been rad.
i know this isnt about the vid(the security camera part), but for anyone that thinks of putting security cameras on your house, keep this in mind before buying some that are easily visible.
a lot of people think of only one part of the camera, like " criminals will see them and think, i shouldnt risk it"
other criminals will think "what are they trying to protect?...might be worth robbing"
if you get some, dont get any that they can see.
As soon as merchant ships are allowed to have lethal small caliber defenses, piracy will stop.
Some large grit/sand blasting media added to the high pressure water might be interesting. Or a slick lubricant that could be sprayed on the deck. Also, I imagine the ship's engine/alternator can generate an awful lot of current, something that might arc to hand held metallic object. I can at least see a fun ship defense game/simulator in there somewhere 😂
As much as that sounds effective unfortunately for other reasons it's not very practical, putting in abrasive grit into the water cannons will increase wear on the ships protective coatings leading to more maintenance, slimy grease on the decks can be time-consuming too clean up after the pirates are gone and can potentially create environmental issues if it finds its way into the ocean, and energizing parts of the ship or the water around the ship with stray currents from the main generators can be a safety hazard to the crew, lead to more electrical issues as well as increase the rate at which below the water line components corrode, you don't want your prop shafts or your through-hole fittings corroding. And replacing those below the water line components usually requires putting the ship into dry dock
@@coolsnake1134 No doubt they all come with challenges! At a point it'll come down to return on investment - is it cheaper than what they're going to be spending on piracy issues and insurance 🤷
Greek fire
Do you know the story of USS Dwight D Eisenhower vs Greenpeace? Palma, Spain 1988. Greenpeace wished to protest their "dislike" of nuclear power and weapons by graffiti tagging Ike's hull. Needless to say, the crew could not allow that. After all, the deck apes would have to spend a lot of time hanging over the side to clean it up. So, 2.5" fire hoses were rigged as water cannons, with M2 machine guns as back up, of course. Swamped Greenpeace's little zodiac boats and flooded their engines. They had to row back to shore. Ike remained graffiti free.
Watching this to prepare for my Pirating License Exams (PLEs).
Trying to get into the industry the right way 🥵
Good job
5:54 it isnt an Israeli owned ship, one of the shareholders is Israeli. and you didnt mention either that none of the crew were Israeli and are still kidnapped
This Rust IRL ☠️
This would make a fun game.
blud really thought they could rob a military destroyer 💀
The one dude who was on fire after the traccer round was fired got me dead😂😂😂😂
No wonder they are so vulnerable using pos defense
6:17 "Skiewer the winged beast!"
im a somali pirate and this videos was very educative for us
I think you forgot the most important reason crews aren't armed. If pirates believe crews are armed they will shoot to kill. The belief that crews aren't armed is what allows most hijackings to be bloodless.
They don’t get much money for dead hostages
Robbery on the unarmed: everybody walks away, someone with more money and someone with heavier pants and no wallets.
Robbery on unarmed people: at least one dead party, possibly both.
If pirates believe the crew is armed, 9.9 times out of 10 they'll just leave and find a ship from a country that doesn't allow guns instead.
It's that same unarmed policy which made them an easy target in the pirates' minds, too. It's just like why gun-free zones don't work to stop mass shootings. The only difference between my example is their objective. One is for profit, the other is mental sickness.
However, the reasoning why both an unarmed ship and a gun-free zone are targeted are the same: an unarmed target is and will always be easier and preferable in the eyes of any aggressor.
Actually not, you’re gonna risk your life firing back on a small unstable boat at another person behind cover on a large stable ship? The whole point of piracy was to make a living while being alive. If you kill people on board you are giving the navy the green light to take you out to prevent more hostage deaths, that is if you don’t die approaching and climbing the ship safely under fire
i still think bullets are a far better deterrent than water or plastic barriers
I would say probably their best defense would be a ships speed. The ship should be equipped with a propulsion configuration that allows them to increase their speed enough to outrun the typical craft pirates employ even if only for short bursts.
This was a veryy looonngg
"it's not what you think"
I think you missed the point on allowing crew members to have firearms. Allowing is not forcing, options are usually preferred. In your teacher analogy, I know several teachers including several in my family that would gladly carry firearms at school if allowed. You are correct in forcing people to do something they don't want to do usually doesn't work out well, but forcing is a far cry from allowing.
Exactly.
Here are some other ideas:
- remote operated machine guns in small turrets, 1 or 2 per side.
- allow the crew to arm themselves if they wish
- facilitate use of armed contractors.
- loads of razorwire
- distribute costs of these things among concerned governments and ship owners who want to use the passage owners with a common pot
I've seen prototypes of a CIWS mounted in a 20' shipping container which could be remotely operated by satellite link.
You’ve solved it mate lmao
@@charlesb.1945 yer welcome
I guess you haven't watched the video
What about torpedoes, which can be remotely controlled and fired by the ship's country's navy.
These torpedoes can be placed on the ship along with cameras. When pirates attack, the crew can contact the navy which can take control of torpedoes and fire them.
Great tutorial for pirats
Helicopters don't like water cannons any more than boats do... I imagine that you'll start seeing automated water laser anti-aircraft defenses. Let me tell you, you definitely don't want to get hit by one of those... Especially if you're in a helicopter. Water lasers make those other hoses look like garden tap hoses.
This only works if you notice the helicopter in time.
@@harrkev Choppers aren't exactly silent.
Of course, the irony in all of this is that none of these measures are as effective as a relatively small detail in possession of an assortment of small arms.
Waoh amazing 😊😊😊
The dangling modifier in the title though
Yeah, but Dead pirates don't pirate no more.
2:23 I’ve stood less than 300 meters behind a kc135 that took of and I’ll tell you: the jet blast was insane, the plane was VERY loud and our chihuahua was a kite for a moment
das good cuz if u stood behind the engines then youd get FULL ON BLOWN AWAY, so yeah, what were you doing behind a KC135 Anyway?
@@TheBananaRaamiz it was at a nato airbase in Germany, the kc135 was positioned all the way at the beginning of the runway and the wasn’t far from the fence
It was at geilenkirchen Air base
Runway 27
This is a very well made and researched video. I subscribed
thanks
Many large cargo ships have some kind of a secret panic room (that might look like a normal container) there the crew can hide in case boarding of the ship could not be avoided.
Looks like a normal container? Ah now THAT should work! previously i thought it a dumb idea, but "security through obscurity" - esp on a ship with hundreds n thousands of containers...!
They mentioned this. To call a mayday and then hide, since pirates generally can't operate the ship
My dad was the production designer on Captain Philips!
Dude!
Jurassic park III
Paul Kirby, husband of Amanda Kirby, was the businessman who tricked Dr. Alan Grant back onto Isla Sorna to search for his son, Eric Kirby, who disappeared on the island two months prior....
@@bastiaan7777777 yep, my dad always got told this at every new job! He has an action figure of Paul Kirby!
too many laws protecting the bad guy
You’d think that the bridge doors would always be locked for reasons such as this.
I believe the insurance companies that insure those ships and cargo don't like them having armed personal either.
Some of the insurance companies only care about the cargo and vessel and really aren't concerned with the loss of replaceable crew.
Well, if they would be armed they would be more likely to get injured or die either by accident or in combat and who is going to pay for that?
@@946towguy2 that doesn't make sense. They have to pay out life insurance to the sailors' families
@@IlIlllIIIllIIlIIlII Many sailors have to buy their own life insurance and pay the premiums.
@@IlIlllIIIllIIlIIlII Also, mostt life insurance policies do not cover acts of war, insurrection or piracy.
Imagine a world where the attacker has more rights than the defendant.. oh wait you dont.
flame thrower with heated bunker oil
0:41
I love this riffle
G3
I love firing sound and its excellent accuracy.
I have a 5mm Gamo air rifle, when I joined the army, it was the first time I shot with a firearm, especially the G3.
The target screen was at 250 meters and I hit 9 out of 10 shots exactly in the center spot, only my first shot hit the edge of a spot.With a score of 98 out of 100.
In Iran, it is known as a canon that is carried in the hand.
Handy canon
The best defense is clearly the most silly and complicated one
The American Military Indusial complex way !!
if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid
Hey we don't talk about the XM8 like that, H&K tried.