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Source: *news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8080098.stm
As he looked at the radar screen Captain Andrey Nozhkin immediately feared the worst. A small vessel was closing fast from the stern.
"It was like a firecracker had gone off inside my head," he recalled.
The Danish-owned merchant ship, the CEC Future, had been on high alert since it entered the Gulf of Aden, the narrow strip of water between Somalia and Yemen. Fire hoses had been made ready to help repel a possible attack by pirates who infest the area.
The crew were maintaining constant contact with coalition naval forces.
Then within minutes the suspicious vessel was visible: a speedboat, crammed with armed men trailing a wake of white foam.
Read On......
As he looked at the radar screen Captain Andrey Nozhkin immediately feared the worst. A small vessel was closing fast from the stern.
"It was like a firecracker had gone off inside my head," he recalled.
The Danish-owned merchant ship, the CEC Future, had been on high alert since it entered the Gulf of Aden, the narrow strip of water between Somalia and Yemen. Fire hoses had been made ready to help repel a possible attack by pirates who infest the area.
The crew were maintaining constant contact with coalition naval forces.
Then within minutes the suspicious vessel was visible: a speedboat, crammed with armed men trailing a wake of white foam.
Read On......
