Pirate Warfare Exposed: Inside the World of Floating Armories I IRONCLAD
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
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Today’s guest is Ian Urbina.
He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who left The New York Times in 2019 to start The Outlaw Ocean Project. The Project’s mission is to produce ”investigative stories about human rights, environment and labor concerns on the two-thirds of the planet covered by water.”
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How do I sign up for that anti-piracy program? 🤔
I suppose the bad guys have to figure out which of these floating armories has the 20 man crew or the 200 man crew...it could go from sugar to shit in a second...
😂Great saying never heard that one
When I was working in the Merchant Marine, I was always concerned about piracy. We went through the Straits of Malacca several times, which is loaded with pirates. All we had for defense was axes and fire hoses. I always thought that was bulshit, but that's International maritime law. Well, it was at the time. When I went to work for a regular company, which shall remain nameless, full-time and I knew I was going to be sailing to South America and back on the same vessel, I brought a 357 Magnum. Why? because half the crew were armed. The captain looked the other way because he had a shotgun in his stateroom. All illegal for a maritime law, but the self-preservation was more important in the event of something happening this was over 20 years ago. If we were ever boarded by the Coast Guard or local authorities and searched, we'd have been screwed.
serious question, if you had weapons on board, could you not find a place to hide them? how detailed of an inspection does the coast guard do? i just find it hard to think you couldnt find a spot on a giant ship.
@JakesPlaying The Coast Guard is very thorough when they board a vessel and do searches. They are the good guys. However, as you know, smugglers too are good at what they do. We were very fortunate on that run we weren't boarded or robbed, As i'm sure we would have been busted.
Id love to see a documentary on a floating armories and more on this topic, sounds crazy
Is that an action figure on the thumbnail?! Lol
😂 No, it isn’t. Lol 😂Lol 😂 Lol 😂
by the looks of that wrist bone I think I can confirm
Meanwhile, transnational maritime activity in the Red Sea area has fallen off by roughly 50% due to Houthi/ Iranian anti-shipping attacks. Please, spare me the feigned anxiety over these " floating armories " and PMCs. Wherever there are armed aggressors, a response is forthcoming.
i think the worst thing is on international stage is a lack of a legitimate international court system. and so crime is very high on the international level. i think most wars would not become wars if immediately leaders are held accountable in a law and order method instead of more collateral crimes. it seems to be nonexistent or illegitmate and so crimes are high with trade crimes like laundering and also murder and mass murder etc.
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@@dertythegrower Right?! 😂
@@dertythegrower
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Oh so a one world government great idea 🙄
The thing is no country is going to surrender national sovereigns to a supra-national legal system. And no country will allow other countries to enforce laws against its leaders.
The issue today is the US rules-based order is no longer enforceable by the West on the global South & the global South hasn't ascended to a position of true equals yet so they can't tame rogue Western interventions yet.
But that'll change inside 10 years.
New to me and very interesting
Wonder how much a subscription to the NRO costs?
I miss the GW's armory...
Bad idea to attack an armory ship. They are not asleep at the wheel, and someone(s) is watching for theeats
This guy is so ghat damn hard to listen to….too choppy.
I’m not understanding what that soft guy is saying. Is he against private security? He seemed more worried about pirates getting killed than anything else. Maybe I misunderstood. 🤷♂️
If your ship is 220,000 tonnes, 425 m x 60 m in size and get taken by a dozen Somali pirates then it is insurance fraud. I will do security for free.
I have a proposal to work for on a security team on ship for pirate protection any suggestions?
Love this kinda shit😁🤫Star Wars Bar's shit
Not exactly. Spent a bit of time on the floating Armoury in the Red Sea. It's a ship that provided a bed, shower and food. A decent place to catch up on the tan and a useful transfer to and from your vessel - as the guy said. I did PMC in Iraq and Maritime work and Maritime was boring and more like a holiday. Same (ish) money for next to zero risk - the most dangerous part of that job was climbing up a rope ladder onto the ship when the transfer boat was moving up and down at the side of the vessel.
@@wibbs88 I know the job was boring, I just was joking about the bar comment he made
Those South Africans are bad asses.
There's SO MANY apartheid guys who have taken new names and ended up as mercenaries. Here in Australia we have mercenaries but they're ALL UAE companies hiring former Australian military. The leaders usually live in Dubai a lot of the time
@@OffGridInvestor That's interesting, why do you think they take new names? War crimes? Apartheid crimes in South Africa?
Are these former 32 Battalion guys? Normal infantry?
@@OffGridInvestorapartheid ended in 1994. Assuming you were 18 in 1993 and served in the SA military that'd make you about 50 years old, for those who served earlier they'd be in their 60s. That doesn't sound like your typical PMCr.
@@OffGridInvestor What a crock of shit! I lived in SA from 1990 to 1996 as a kid/teenager. Worked with a lot of SA guys out in Iraq 2003-2006 - ex-Recce, 32-Btn, Rhodesian SAS and Selous Scouts. Nobody changed their name - why would they need to? They weren't Nazi death squads lol.
whoa!!!! i want in!!!!
Haha 😂 this has so many more views at barely 10 mins that it’s just comical. I’m referring to the “wannabe host” that NOBODY wants to watch!!! We’re here for Andy, PERIOD!!!
The old Ironclads. The Monitor and the Merrimack. Try pirating that! New here and chiming in.
I would love to work in that arms room