Captain Phillips further played smart and very quietly switched the frequency on the walky-talky and started talking to Muse about how they would go to the different parts of the ship. He then ordered his men to search the whole ship. He then asked about the rest of the crew. Phillips tried to negotiate with them and offered them 30000$ from the ship’s safe.īut as luck would have it, the pirate said no to his offer. Abduwali Muse, the leader of the pirates told Captain that they would spare the ship and the lives of the crew aboard in exchange for a million dollars. Captain Phillips told the whole crew to get down and hide into the engine room and allowed himself to be captured. Later, the ship was again attacked by the same pirates, armed on one skiff and this time they were able to get on to the ship. Listening to this conversation, the pirates turned around their ship returned. The captain showed his presence of mind and made a pretend-call to the warship requesting for immediate air support and then replied to his own message by changing his voice saying that air support will be there in the next 5 minutes. One of the pirates used a walky-talky acquired from some previous loot, and thus were able to listen to the conversations happening aboard the ship and Captain knew it. Now this ship was unarmed and the pirate ship was armed in two skiffs. During the drill itself, the ship was chased by Somali pirates. While the ship was at the Horn of Africa, Richard Phillip and his first officer Shane Murphy decided to carry out practice drills. The movie highlights the importance of qualities like situational awareness, good communication, and teamwork. Just a few days ago, I was watching this amazing documentary called “Captain Phillips.” Inspired by the true story of the “Maersk Alabama hijacking” in the year 2009, it tells of the unarmed ship going from the Port of Salalah in Oman to Mombasa, Kenya.
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