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Piracy is often profitable because of ransoms paid for crew as far as I know. The article seems to directly address this. With no crew on board, how would the
by scotch_drinker 13y ago
Piracy is often profitable because of ransoms paid for crew as far as I know. The article seems to directly address this. With no crew on board, how would the pirates stop the ship from just continuing on to port with them on it? I suppose they could threaten to destroy the ship or something on the ship but that's no different than the situation now.
- dzhiurgis 13y agoNew generation of pirates would hack into the main computer and divert the ship to their port?
- icebraining 13y agoThey can do that now.
- adventured 13y agoOne of the few, and more unusual captures in which that wasn't the case: "Pirates captured a Saudi-owned supertanker loaded with more than $100 million worth of crude oil off the coast of Kenya, seizing the largest ship ever hijacked" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/world/africa/18pirates.html http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/world/africa/18pirates.htm...
- scotch_drinker 13y agoIt was still released after an estimated $3 million ransom. If it had no crew, how would they have been able to achieve this ransom? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Sirius_Star http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Sirius_Star
- dragonwriter 13y agoThe $3 million ransom was a small price for a ship and cargo worth, together, a quarter billion dollars. Even for an unmanned ship, the owner has plenty of reason to to pay ransoms that are a literally pennies on the dollar compared to losing the ship completely.