Pirates

[Churchill]

AtW, I really wish I knew what bollocks you are posting this time but you're still on my ignore list I'm afraid.

[sunnysan]

Buyer

But the oil belongs to Western buyer no doubt...

Unless is Cash on Delivery. I dont really know as I have never bought 2 mln barrels of oil before.

[cailin maith]

Oh for the love of God, I can't be the only one laughing about the pirate plank thing.... can I?

[Purple Dalek]

Unless is Cash on Delivery. I dont really know as I have never bought 2 mln barrels of oil before.

You never know it may well be part of a derivative trade and this is part of a nefarious scam to make loads of money.

That'd be in Monty Python mode.

[EternalOptimist]

try googling up biggest naval bombardment in history then plank.

I tend to rely more on these things called 'books'. my 'Books' tell me that the largest bombardment in history was on june 6th 1944. aka D Day.

does your googly thing have a date and a place that I can check out?

[Moscow Mule]

It's actually a very easy thing to board a super-supertanker. They take about 3 days to stop and there's no way 25 crew could prevent boarding along the whole of it's length.

Easiest thing is for supertanker owners to invest in a modified couple of these

http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.2219

Would certainly deter even the most ambitious pirates...

[Purple Dalek]

I tend to rely more on these things called 'books'. my 'Books' tell me that the largest bombardment in history was on june 6th 1944. aka D Day.

does your googly thing have a date and a place that I can check out?

Tripoli 1804

[oracleslave]

It's actually a very easy thing to board a super-supertanker. They take about 3 days to stop and there's no way 25 crew could prevent boarding along the whole of it's length.

Easiest thing is for supertanker owners to invest in a modified couple of these

http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.2219

Would certainly deter even the most ambitious pirates...

How much do a couple of those cost during the Credit Crunch TM

[sunnysan]

Serves them right

It's actually a very easy thing to board a super-supertanker. They take about 3 days to stop and there's no way 25 crew could prevent boarding along the whole of it's length.

Easiest thing is for supertanker owners to invest in a modified couple of these

http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.2219

Would certainly deter even the most ambitious pirates...

They probably "credit crunched" their crew, so they where running on a skeleton staff. The ship is so large it probably took a day for all the crew to realise they had been hijacked

[Moscow Mule]

How much do a couple of those cost during the Credit Crunch TM

I'm not sure. They could always scrimp and get a couple of Phalanx' which you can just weld to the deck and plug in.

Either way, it's going to cost a lot less than £100m of lost oil...