1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: Oh beat Force. If it doesn't work, you're just not 2 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: using enough. You're listening to soft a Gradio special operations, 3 00:00:24,920 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: military news and straight talk with the guys and the community. 4 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,960 Speaker 1: Oh Clary, Welcome to Software Radio again and it's your host, 5 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:18,639 Speaker 1: Phil Campion x D Squadron two s as on time 6 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: and on target with Software Radio. So let's get it going. 7 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: This week, We're going to talk a little bit about 8 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: anti poison and what I was up to off the 9 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: coast of Somalia. We're also going to debrief slightly the 10 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: Great Club event which has just happened in Virginia, which 11 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 1: was an absolute success. So we're gonna have a little 12 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: look at what we did down there, because I was 13 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: really really impressed with not only the staff that I 14 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: met there for the first time, but also with the 15 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: punters that came along and gave their rule and an 16 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: absolutely splendid weekend with meself, Brandon and the guys. It 17 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: really was. It really was something special. So let's start there. 18 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: Should we should be debrief the Great Club Academy. Well, 19 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: the Great Club Academy was exactly what it says on 20 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: the tin. We waved over the to the race track 21 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: in West Virginia border in North Carolina. You have to 22 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: excuse my geography because it is absolutely poor. And I 23 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: literally just jumped off a plane and that went where 24 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: I was told. So yeah, really really really self experience 25 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 1: and know you're just jumping off and into a new 26 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: country and offer, well, let hit the race track. We 27 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: met with the guys the night before, all staying in 28 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: a hotel which was which was good to everybody under 29 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: the same roof, sharing rooms, which was awesome because it 30 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 1: meant you've got to meet people. You've got a bunking 31 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: buddy straight away and somebody to watch your back. First 32 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: night later we met in town, had a bit of 33 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: eat which was great with some scoff You know me, 34 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: I can't match five minutes about getting something in my stomach. 35 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 1: So we had a couple of beers with the fellows. 36 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: It was good. We've got to meet and everybody turned 37 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 1: up to night. Myself random was their nick gofman or 38 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: the guys and to all the guys, you're regulars on here. 39 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: Everybody there and it was fun. We had a good 40 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,519 Speaker 1: night out and that the same next minute next morning, 41 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: up bright and breezy in the mine and down in 42 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: a race track. Well, we're breakfast together, which was again 43 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: a very has an experience, and we first met the 44 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,239 Speaker 1: guys done at the racetrack and at our first lessons 45 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: and other lessons covered really well phenomenal. I didn't stop 46 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: learning the whole time I was there, let alone the Panthers. 47 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 1: I've got to tell you, it was a really really 48 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: good week. My stuff was all based around driving and 49 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: techniques and E d C and the first Dage and 50 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: all sorts of bits and pieces. But there was all 51 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: sorts going on, and I think the guys that came 52 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: down to have a look, and I'm telling you what 53 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: the backgrounds on these people, they were from all over 54 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: the place. We had we had a dentist day, we 55 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: had a psychiatrist there, we had some we had some 56 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: young guys with some young blood coming through which were 57 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: which were enjoying themselves. Their old man brought them. Mostly. Yeah, 58 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: we had we had people from across the city. It 59 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: decided to come and try the Great Club, the Great 60 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: Club experience with and actually you know, get down with 61 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: the with the guys. So I talked them about the 62 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: regiment of le First, which you're on line from here, 63 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: of course, and we did some really cool things we 64 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: did some we did some stuff on the ranges, and 65 00:03:58,200 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: I've gotta tell you the guys that we're working with 66 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: on the ranges, I learned stuff myself there which I 67 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: hadn't really sort of that you know, you know, it's 68 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: like for those lines, we don't get a lot of 69 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: range time. So it was really good for me to 70 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: get on the ranges and do some really cool stuff. 71 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: And the guys there they knew that they knew the onions, 72 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: as we say over our way, they knew what they 73 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: were talking about. So and the extremely experienced guys on 74 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: the range. In fact, I don't think I've been on 75 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: the range for so many guys es well, was one 76 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: of the guys out here. One of the games is 77 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: I've probably take taking more lives than small pox. It 78 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: really was. It really was some top people on the 79 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,919 Speaker 1: ranges so were experienced. Did some driving skills which was 80 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: good on the skid man, you know in money or 81 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: old American style police cars, when hacking running that did 82 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: some stuff together, buddy driving new and that sort of stuff, 83 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: blindfolded and always all the good stuff. So to more 84 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: operated skills coming out to the fort and the look 85 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 1: I say for me the lectures. The lectures were great. 86 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: We learned all about d C American style, which of 87 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 1: course I'm not American, so D see UK style, and 88 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 1: we talked about various bits and pieces, and I gave 89 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: a presentation on some stuff which you know I've done 90 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: in a former life as a Special Forces operator, which 91 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: I'm not going to spoil for a boat on here 92 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 1: because if you want to see it, you're gonna have 93 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: to see it next time, because I really doing it 94 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: again because it went down really really well. So talking 95 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: about a few bits of pieces which I've done before, 96 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: and like I say, for me, I never stepped learning 97 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: from this time I got there till the time I left. 98 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 1: And we've got some really really really cool people, like 99 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: they're saying, anyone who was involved in that event, the 100 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: Great Club Academy, thanks for coming. Thanks for taking the 101 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: time out of your lives to come and spend some 102 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,559 Speaker 1: of it with me, because I really really genuinely enjoy 103 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: the experience. It was a really top top weekend, so 104 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: highly recommended, and I've got a feeling we'll be doing 105 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: a few more in the future. And of course, those 106 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: guys that went on that one, you were now the originals, 107 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: you are the first ones. So to see a couple 108 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,799 Speaker 1: of your coming back one day and maybe even maybe 109 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 1: even ended up as instructors. Who knows that the directing 110 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 1: stuff that would be cool. And it's yeah, good, good 111 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 1: stuff all around. That's un let's swing fire sight and 112 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: and let's talk about let's talk about anti piracy. Now. 113 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: I know a lot of guys out there would have 114 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: been saying, yeah, we went down some marley and all 115 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. The first fold I did, and 116 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: it must have been about how many years ago. There 117 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: must have been about ten years ago, ten or fifteen 118 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: years ago. And I started taking calls of a friend 119 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: of mine saying, food, you want to come down? Do 120 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: you want to come down to the Gulf of Aiding 121 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: the g r A and have a look at this 122 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: antipiracy stuff that's going on. And I was a bit skeptical. 123 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 1: Antipiracy were the pirates. And he explained to me that 124 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 1: the Somali at the time, they weren't no more than 125 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: Somali fishermen, you know, had suffered a few losses, but 126 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: the fishing industry had been closed down. Here a couple 127 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 1: of horse slips and a bit of bad luck, and 128 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: they were now taking to the Robin tankers and holding 129 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: the mostage, taking them down the range, mooring them up, 130 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: and demanding huge sums of money for them. So that 131 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 1: was the basic sketch in the early days that they 132 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: say these guys were railroaded into it a little bit. 133 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 1: It was you know, these guys, these guys were menaces. 134 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: They were just trying to make some money. And I'm 135 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: going to tell you that now because a lot of 136 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: people have got this picture of you know, really evil, 137 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: horrible people. Want to be honest. It was a bit 138 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: of piracy. And if I was hungry and you know, 139 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: I couldn't get enough, and you know, you have to 140 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: sometimes think to yourself, what would you do in that situation. 141 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: Luckily I'm not in that situation. But like I said, 142 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: I can AMPI fires if nothing else with the guys 143 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: who were there at the time, and they really were 144 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: just flip flop wearing local guys who were sheep board 145 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: is and they're like they had no idea what they 146 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: were doing with their weapons really, and our tactics were 147 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: just to try and stop the ship, get on board 148 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: and get a weapon in someone's face so they could 149 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: have enough time to get the ship better thing and 150 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: then start making negotiations. Now, over the time, it's obviously 151 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: changed a little bit because people could obviously see what 152 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,119 Speaker 1: was going on in potential for big money. These people 153 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: didn't want big money. I got to tell you, the 154 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: first pirates I came across don't want big money. They 155 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: wanted to be fed, they wanted to be warned. They 156 00:07:57,240 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: wanted just some food and some some some supplements for 157 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 1: their many. To be honest, but it wasn't happening, and that, 158 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: let's say Ablefore, you know, the big guys have moved 159 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: in behind them and as a more since sinister feel 160 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: to what they were doing. But in the early days, 161 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 1: it really was just a few guys on some skiffs 162 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: with not very good weapons, flip flop wearing. It really was, 163 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: you know, they weren't up too much whatsoever. But they 164 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: were boarding ships. And so did that end. In the 165 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: early days, you couldn't be armed. You didn't have any 166 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: weapons on the ships at all. So what were we doing? 167 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: But we were putting defenses on the ships. We were 168 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: put in barbed wire, we were using bowrels, we were 169 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: greasing the decks, and we were doing anything we could 170 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: to stop people boarding, and I would tell captains of ships, 171 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:42,199 Speaker 1: do anything you can outrun them, keep going, because basically 172 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 1: the way I looked at it in those early days 173 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: was they don't have a lot of ammunition. They certainly 174 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: haven't got a lot of fuel, and if you can 175 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: outrun them or keep them shooting at you, they'll run 176 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: out of one, two or that. So if you could 177 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: make them shoot, we used to put dummies out and 178 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: ultimate least, if you could get these people shooting their weapons, 179 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:59,559 Speaker 1: they'd be using up their ammunition and they'll be less 180 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 1: chance of them using anything from the ship. In the 181 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: meintrem you had flares if you were lucky. I'd seen carpholets, 182 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 1: I've seen horsts on there. But you know, being being 183 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: unarmed as a as a British person, there's nothing unusual 184 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: to me. And I've been unarmed in some extraordinary situations 185 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: before in other corners of the world that wasn't particularly 186 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: worried about it. Like I'm saying, the plan would be 187 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: to to get the car out of the way. You 188 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 1: get them down where they couldn't be couldn't be a 189 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: target to anybody, get them in the hold of the ship, 190 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 1: getting them in the bottom into the citadels and literally 191 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,319 Speaker 1: try and outrun the pirates or stop them getting on board. 192 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: And you do that with flares and nail bombs made 193 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: of petrol, all sorts and stuff. It really was. It 194 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 1: was like the old eight team days. It was like 195 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: you know, you were you were welding stuff to the 196 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: side of the ship, and my sort of stuff. And 197 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: for a while it was quite good fun, I gotta 198 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: tell you, enjoying it. We were making some good money 199 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: as well. I mean, I mean the Swedish company I 200 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: worked for originally when I first went down another plane 201 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,839 Speaker 1: eight and nine hundred dollars a day, which is more 202 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: less unheard of nowadays. I remember my first other trip. 203 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: I went down a Muscat for the friend of mine 204 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: who kept phoning me up and he literally he says 205 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: to me, says, there'll be some gear on the on 206 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: the side of the on the dock, and I said, yeah, okay, 207 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: I'll go to the gear. So I flew in the masket. 208 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 1: I was met by the shipping company, gig, the agency 209 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: we put in. We got down to the dock and 210 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: I said to them, where's my heir, where's my gear? 211 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,079 Speaker 1: For the ship and the guy said, no gear here. 212 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: I said, what do you mean, no gear here? He says, 213 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: we don't have no gear for you. I said, I 214 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,559 Speaker 1: have gear, Barbia, I have some extra flares coming on. 215 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: I've got lots of stuff for the ship because there's 216 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: nothing here. So I phoned out my mate in England 217 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: and I said to him, what mate, I says, what's 218 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: going on? He says, he says nobody said it was 219 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: going to be easy and he hung up. Unbelievable. And 220 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: here I am on the dock. I managed to would 221 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 1: eventually get the agent to disappeared the town and he 222 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 1: comes back with one role with gardening wire and I'm 223 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: not well. Jeez, great, thanks and we get this garden 224 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: where we get on board the ship and the crew 225 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 1: were phenomenal. We had Filipinos on my first ever ship 226 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,199 Speaker 1: and they were the bason had great control with the 227 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 1: lads that were working, and we soon had this frame 228 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: wide up, all the stairrails greased. And don't forget, we've 229 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 1: done a lot of work on these ships. And if 230 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: you look into my social media at big Fog dot 231 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: com at Big Full Campion, you'll see some of the 232 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: photographs of some of the ships that we prepared, and 233 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: there was a lot of preparation, and don't forget, when 234 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: you got to wherever you were going, all this stuff 235 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 1: would have to come off. It would all have to 236 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: be cut there and taken back, and all the guns 237 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,319 Speaker 1: and all the gunnals cleaned, and all the stairwears, all 238 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: the grease we used to put on him to stop 239 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: people climbing, all the anti climb stuff on the side 240 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: of the ship. Everything, everything would have to come off 241 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: and you'd have to start fresh. And those little guys, 242 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 1: those little four partans were run round with all their 243 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: cleaning equipment and literally sort the thing out. There were 244 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 1: phenomenal people, so we worked really hard. And not to 245 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 1: say for the first four or five trips we never 246 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: really had an approach or anything. They used to be 247 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,839 Speaker 1: the internationally recognized transit card or where you could roll 248 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 1: with other ships through the through the pirate waters. That 249 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: was okay, but the pirates soon identify the either end 250 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: of these transit corridors were good places to get you. 251 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: And the first time my ship was over approached, I 252 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: was actually when there of a captain from Russia and 253 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: he was a drunk and all he did was drink, 254 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 1: and he was petrified, and he'd scared his men, and 255 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: his men were scared to go through the Golden Raiding. 256 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 1: And we were coming back up north. We were coming 257 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: through the gold radin but towards Egypt. So we're going 258 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:23,719 Speaker 1: up the way and we've come through and we're on 259 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: towards the Bible ended, and I saw him the on horizon. 260 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: I see a couple of little boats bobbing about them like, oh, 261 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,319 Speaker 1: they aren't they they're not much intent. And then I've 262 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:35,079 Speaker 1: seen them bump when the radar and then out towards us. 263 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 1: Now the captain caesus at the same time as he does, 264 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 1: and he goes into a complete and utter panic about things. 265 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh God, here we go. So these 266 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: things are getting closer, and I'm turning the captain and 267 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: gaining We need more speed, we need more supedouses. Get 268 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: this fing go and get the ship up. So he's 269 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: radioing down the engineer in the in the room downstairs, 270 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: in the engine room, and he's asking him for more speed, 271 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,079 Speaker 1: and he's coming back. We were saying like this is 272 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: as much as I've gone. We're doing flating nats here 273 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: and these gifts are probably doing on the radar, they're 274 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,839 Speaker 1: doing about sixteen to twenty knots. And as see, he's 275 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: flat and his fings a little boats and it's about 276 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: for for all them. Now we can see coming to 277 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: the water ship and we're like, wow, here we go. 278 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: We're gonna have our first account with the pirates. Sry 279 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: what happens as well? They come level with the ship 280 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: and the first one I know is they're familiar sound 281 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 1: of a bit of Aco forty seven coming over the 282 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: top of the ship, and their stays are not going 283 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: to hit nobody. But we've stuffed the crew downstairs and 284 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: it's just meself and the captain and there was one 285 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 1: other security guy, but he was all he'd had some 286 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,839 Speaker 1: sort of malaria contract and he was completely out of it. 287 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: So he's in bed. Tell myself. The captain and the 288 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: first mate were upstairs and they're circling is down and 289 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: I'm telling them, do not stop, do not stop, no 290 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:47,959 Speaker 1: matter what happens, do not stop. And we're getting it again. 291 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. We're getting a few few 292 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: few rounds outs and that sort of stuff, and I'm 293 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: thinking that this is this is awful. Anyway, he goes 294 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,839 Speaker 1: to and we've we we've bunged a few flares out 295 00:13:57,880 --> 00:13:59,959 Speaker 1: at them and that sort of stuff. And if we're 296 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: we're not going to hit them with the floors. But 297 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 1: they must have been getting low on out on on ammunition, 298 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 1: because they're now slowing down with the rate of fire, 299 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 1: and it was a nuratic rate of fire. They're just 300 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: they're just playing and spranged. You know, I made it 301 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: ain't no good to them. And I'm realizing this and 302 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:15,679 Speaker 1: I'm doing anything i can't to make them shoot some more. 303 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: So on I'm waving at them, I'm sharing them a target. 304 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: I'm doing Now, come on, guys, come on, don't give up. Now, 305 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: choose a ward, you know what I mean. It was 306 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: really funny. And anyway, they don't, and they get alongside 307 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: and one of the skifts is coming in and he's 308 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: trying to hook a ladder on and I'm now flowing 309 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: nuts and bolts at this gigs and now at the 310 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: end of the bridge wing you can imagine me on 311 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: the thing. I'm leaning right over the edge of this 312 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: ship and I'm flowing some nuts and bolts at him, 313 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, God, he's gonna get on. He's 314 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: definitely gonna get on. He's got a homemade ladder on 315 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: his skiff and he's pointing it towards the thing, and 316 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: his boat's going up and down in the wake of 317 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: our ship, and I'm thinking it ain't gonna be long 318 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: before he gets hooked on here. And anyway, sure enough, 319 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: I'm now looking for stuff to float and we've done 320 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 1: all the floors. I've got nothing to fire him. And 321 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: he's right by the side of the ship, but right 322 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: underneath the bridge wing, and I'm like, nah, this is 323 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: gonna happen. He's eeasers are on. There are these geezers 324 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: are coming. So I run back into the bridge when 325 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: I have looked around, and in the corner of the bridge, 326 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: the captain used to keep his cans of coke in 327 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: a in a little fridge, a tiny little fridge, you know, 328 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: one of those ones that you could probably get in 329 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: your r V or on the back of your truck. 330 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: So I entered the cokes out on the floor, grab 331 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: the fridge out of the thing only above me, and 332 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: run down to the bridge wing. Lean over and I'll 333 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: see these pie was looking up at me now thinking 334 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 1: what is he doing. And as I look up at me, 335 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: I throwed his fridge with as much might as I 336 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: could have a muster. I rattled his fring down the 337 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 1: side of my boat, and it must be about forty foot. 338 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: But by the time it's a fucking all boat. It 339 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: is absolutely steaming towards them, and it doesn't do too 340 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: much to the guy. I wish I did him on 341 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: the eight. It would have absolutely killed him straight out, 342 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: but it misses the guy. But HiT's the front of 343 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: their thing, and it bakes off the davit that's holding 344 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 1: their piece of rope with the ladder on, and it 345 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 1: knocks the ladder all over the place, and the geese 346 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: that it's holding the ladder, he falls back in the ship. 347 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 1: It doesn't look on to ours properly, and it all 348 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: comes off, and they find themselves drifting away. At these 349 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: stage they look up at us and they think matters 350 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: and they must have thought, we can't, you know, we 351 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 1: we we we We've taken a bit of a bit 352 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: of a bush in here. And they whirled away enough 353 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: they must have thought, you know, you know, the lack 354 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: of ammunition and the fact that it was going to 355 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: take so long to get on board, and we're taking 356 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: them further out the scene, now, further away from where 357 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: they want to be. So luckily they must have had 358 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: a time frame and stuff, and they turned away and 359 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 1: off they went, and we were like, wow, that was close. 360 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: That was really close, and made me really laughed. The 361 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 1: captain turns, don't go, will You've done very wrong. You've 362 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: done very wrong. You were flapping. You're flapping. Look at Budge. 363 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: We've won't with no weeds. You were absolutely anyway. I 364 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: let him have his moment with the glory. The ray 365 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: led back to his boat when told him how we 366 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: defended himself against pirates and all that sort of stuff. 367 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: We got off when we came back again on the 368 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: next travel and a few morning it was quiet for 369 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: quite some time after, but the operation started changing as 370 00:16:58,200 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: far as the pirates were consumed, and now what they 371 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: were doing, as they were getting more money beyond and 372 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: they were getting better weapons. They were taking more guys 373 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: in the theater, they were putting the skills on the 374 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 1: mother ship so they could get more range. You were 375 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: starting to see them maybe the other saw the Indian Ocean. 376 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 1: The operation was getting a lot bigger as far as 377 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: they were concerned. The money drops were getting bigger. The 378 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 1: money was down to five six, seven, eight nine million 379 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 1: they were getting for these ships. And the ransom, of course, 380 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 1: is the crew. No one gives a ship about the ship. 381 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: No one cares about the ship. They just want the crew. 382 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: So things are developed, and funly enough, the wages were 383 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 1: coming down. The wages were getting less. You were now 384 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: getting a few floating armories and people were managing getting 385 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 1: weapons on the ships and that sort of stuff. So 386 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,639 Speaker 1: the conditions were getting better, but the money was coming down. 387 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 1: Now that's like I'm thinking, now, I don't want to 388 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:44,199 Speaker 1: be here any more because I ain't learning the right 389 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: money anymore. So you know, I really was worsing me 390 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: about it. I was like, I need to earn the 391 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: right money. I ain't doing this. But I remember I 392 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 1: took one trip on We've gone down, and we were 393 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,199 Speaker 1: Madagascar when I supported a mother ship coming towards us, 394 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 1: and again the captain went in the milkdown, absolute miltdown. 395 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:00,879 Speaker 1: He had a complete enough of what he didn't want 396 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,360 Speaker 1: nothing to do it. So again we sent the credance 397 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: to is. I was already young lad this time, and 398 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 1: I remember we were screaming down this hatch to get 399 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: more speed, more speed, and this mother ships coming up 400 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: on us, and this ship and the Steve was quite chopping, 401 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 1: and I think that's what saved the day. The city 402 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 1: was extremely chopping. But this thing was on us now, 403 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: it was locked on and it was coming in and 404 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: our engine rooms pushing it and pushing it and pushing it. 405 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 1: And we've gone from eleven or twelve knots, but his 406 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: finger air is doing about thirteen point two. We get 407 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 1: up to fourteen. But this thing is still closing and 408 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: he's now close enough forced to bear to make people 409 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: out properly on the back of his fing Yeah. Here 410 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: they come, here they come, and we're like this, we're 411 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 1: based and if this will get on board, we are 412 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,880 Speaker 1: in deeper traple because they want no weapons and I've 413 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 1: got very very few defenses on the ship over what 414 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,400 Speaker 1: we normally do. But these people are coming equipped. They've 415 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 1: got more than one ladder, they've got ropes, they've got 416 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: a ks, they got built for weapons, they got that lot. 417 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: We're like, oh no, this is a bad day to 418 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: see anyway. I'm yelling and screaming at the engineer. More power, 419 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: more power, more pay and he's running and I don't 420 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: know what he's doing now. Now, I don't know if 421 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: he's got a donkey and he's hitting it, or he's 422 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: flowing cold into or finest. But he manages to get 423 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: us up to about thirteen point free firting point four 424 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 1: knots and we start to pull away. And when I 425 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: say pull away, I mean in the space for an hour, 426 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 1: we'll probably gain about ten ms. It's insane. It really 427 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 1: is Catton mouse. And all the time I'm yelling at him. 428 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: I'm waving at the pirlots, I'm yelling at him. I'm 429 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: waving at the pilots, I'm yelling at him. And eventually 430 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: we started to pull away and we get a bit 431 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: of decent distance in between us, and then they slow 432 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 1: down and they screw around and they go the other way. 433 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 1: They must have thought, note we can't catch them, or 434 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: they running out fuel or whatever. I don't care. But 435 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: they decided enough was enough and they disappeared. And I 436 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: gotta tell you it was close. Anyway, we pulled away 437 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,239 Speaker 1: from there. He slowed the ship down as soon as 438 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: we got outside of these people. And as we slowed down, 439 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: I heard this a mighty boom and are grown, and 440 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: we'll blunt one of our engines. And I've got a 441 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: photograph of it and I'm gonna put it up on 442 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,400 Speaker 1: my social media next week. A great big black we 443 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: were smoke climb out of our ship and we were 444 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:15,399 Speaker 1: now drifting. The engines had gone. I don't think myself 445 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 1: if that had been two hours earlier, these barrates would 446 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,439 Speaker 1: now be running all over this ship. Anyway. You can 447 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 1: imagine the captain, he didn't want nothing to do in 448 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 1: the first place, is now absolutely running around this ship again. 449 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 1: Anybody he can into that engine, went to mend these 450 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: engines before all of these ships ree services again, the 451 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 1: mother ships, and they came and have another goo. Yeah, 452 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 1: it was a very very very tense time as we 453 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: run around this ship right and eventually, like I said, 454 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: a guy got it going. But we never got up 455 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: to full speed again. We only ever got up to 456 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 1: about eight knots. We went last Madagascar, we've went up 457 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 1: to our I think we went into Mombassa with this 458 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,919 Speaker 1: ship before. We've got some proper attention that it needed. 459 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: And that's for that captain. He flew him from Mombassa 460 00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: said he done enough, said he wasn't taking the ship 461 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: anywhere else. He left his job, and it was it was, 462 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: it was a problem. You know that these crews didn't 463 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: want to come into these areas. These areas were dangerous 464 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: and if they got on board, although they were not 465 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: killing you straight away, because you were the money you 466 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,199 Speaker 1: were the money shop, you WoT over after you were 467 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: going to spend a long time in captivity. And the 468 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: next ship we came across was actually in captivity, and 469 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 1: we we met it as it came out of captivity 470 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: after the money drop. And remember that the figures coming 471 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 1: off this ship were absolutely disheveled. They've been on it 472 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: for months years, I think they've been on it for 473 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: and we got them off. It was the MV neck 474 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: Nexus and we took that in the Mombassa. And I've 475 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 1: never seen a ship in disrepair like it in all 476 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: my days. It was a complete and utter mess. It 477 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: really was a complaint and our mess. And we managed 478 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 1: to get this fing refitted enough so that we could 479 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 1: get a crawl on it and take it back across 480 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: the way to Chittagong and we dumped it, actually dune 481 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: the ship. They've had enough of it. We had cost 482 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: them a fortune. But that's another story. That's for another day. 483 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: I'll do the MV Nectus Nexus on another day because 484 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 1: that really was that really was something else. So that's it. 485 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,640 Speaker 1: It's my introduction into anti piracy. We'll look a bit 486 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 1: more about the MV next next US next time I'm on, 487 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: and we'll talk a little bit about the motorcyl around there, 488 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 1: the parent pilots which changed, and then the industry changed, 489 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: and it did it change for the bar. Well, there's 490 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,640 Speaker 1: not so must piracy nowadays, but there ain't as much 491 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,400 Speaker 1: work either. And where there's no work, there's no fill. 492 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,159 Speaker 1: I can tell you that for sure. All right, So 493 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: I've pulled away from the anti piracy for a bit 494 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: because there's not that too much going on for us 495 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 1: down there anymore. But for the time I did spend 496 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: down there, I did enjoy myself. It was fun and 497 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: I did make a little bit though as well. So 498 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,440 Speaker 1: don't forget I'm gonna look at the stuff dot com 499 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: to doing nothing. There's some major stuff happening very very 500 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: soon with these people. All right, It's all going to 501 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 1: be fun. There's going to be some great stuff going on. 502 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 1: And don't forget the great club that's where all the 503 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 1: professionals get there gear. I get mine from there. You 504 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: hit yours from there too. There's some great stuff, Honestly, 505 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,479 Speaker 1: the great club stuff I've had has been missed. It's 506 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: in my car now. It's actually with my car and 507 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: it goes everywhere with me, and I'll take it. You know. 508 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: It's my DC. It's all a bits and pieces, all right. 509 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 1: So don't forget bichers that everything we're doing here because 510 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: it's cool, all right, And I'm sure i'd like to 511 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 1: see you people on the next academy, all right, So 512 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: let's see where it goes. I'm out of here for now. 513 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,120 Speaker 1: You check out the sites, I'll tell you check out 514 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: my social media as well. I'm a big your company 515 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 1: and I'm on Twitter, I'm on Facebook, and I'm on Insta. 516 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: And until next time, who does wins? And I'll see 517 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: you right on. 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