No joke. My father was a Ship's Master (oil tankers) and would get extremely upset at people who (as he saw it) made light of piracy by flying the black skull and crossbones flag. Some pirates are small scale, and some (like those off Somalia) have fast RIBs, rocket propelled grenades and machine guns.
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[b]He had managed to send off an Emergency Position Indicating Reported Beacon during the ordeal which notified the International Maritime Organisation.
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The information was then sent to the Australian embassy in Jakarta which launched the urgent rescue operation. After a three-day search, Mr Nowicki was found drifting off the coast on Kuala Telada.
The three day search would either reflect poorly on the Indonesian search effort or that he had an EPIRB that didn't transmit his GPS position.
With my experience of Australian embassies, I can't see them "launching an urgent rescue operation".
Taking his wheel is sneaky trick.
gary
The economy in Bali has nose dived. Hotels are at 1% occupancy with most of those in hospitality and tourism out of work, with no social safety net to save them. Unfortunately we will see alot more of this going on.
None of that makes much sense. Bali to Lampung is about 660nm. He would have drifter very fast in those 3 days.
