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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 05:47 PM
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Captain escapes, recaptured.
Reporting from Washington -- The American captain of a cargo ship who is being held captive by Somali pirates on a lifeboat tried to escape by jumping overboard but was recaptured a short time later, a U.S. official said today.

Capt. Richard Phillips, who was taken by the pirates on Wednesday in a failed effort to seize the Maersk Alabama, jumped out of the lifeboat and attempted to swim to safety. He may have been trying to reach one of the nearby U.S. Navy ships keeping watch.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-somali-pirates11-2009apr11,0,3373558.story

Without knowing the details one wonders why the navy wasn't able to help him. Like blowing the lifeboat out of the water and picking him up.
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 05:52 PM
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1. I don't think he got that far.
The pirates fired upon him, one jumped in after him, right away. The Navy is within sight, but not right there.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-10-09 05:54 PM
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2. I don't think he was far enough away from the lifeboat
they likely felt they couldn't blow up the boat without blowing him up.
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