thanks. there were a couple similar stories like t...

2010-01-07T13:53:31.515-06:00

thanks. there were a couple similar stories like that too. but none that i have come across broach the topic of the cargo the alabama was carrying or its itinerary. i will have to go back to my notes from that period, but iirc there were some questions about an excessive amount of time alloted for the ship to travel from the port at djibouti to mombassa. and then the apparent secrecy wrt unloading it once it did arrive in kenya.

I don’t know if you saw or mentioned this little d...

2010-01-06T18:16:00.444-06:00

I don’t know if you saw or mentioned this little detail on the Maersk Alabama. Dec. 2. It is not just the one guy, a number of his crew are angry with him.
AP Enterprise: Crew blames capt. for pirate attack
Crew members found the warnings in the ship's computer system when the Alabama returned to sea, Perry said. … When the Alabama was at sea, Quinn said he plotted the positions of recent pirate attacks, "and they were right on our course line. Phillips sailed us right through the middle of all of that." The ship could have gone another 100 miles out, "and it would've taken us out of the localized area where all the pirates were. That's what they were trying to tell us, to stay away from there," Quinn said. The ship's helmsman, Abu Tasir Mohammed Reza, of West Hartford, Conn., said he lost respect for Phillips once he found out about the warnings. "He didn't follow those warnings. He did not realize that something is coming ahead. He did not take it seriously. He did not change the course," … "I put faith in the fact that we were going to take some kind of evasive action," said John Cronan, of Merion, Pa., an engineer who has sued for injuries to his left knee and ankle. "I thought it was a given that we would do the best we could given our capabilities to get out of the danger zone.

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I don’t know if you saw or mentioned this little d...