Russian company offers pirate hunting as a vacation
by Erik on Jun.25, 2009, under sailing
As many of you sailors and cruisers are aware, there has been a dramatic increase in pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia and surrounding areas. A Russian luxury yacht company is offering to its customers the opportunity to attract and then attack these pirates on the high seas. For £3,500 per day, you get to act as bait amongst a highly trained ex-commando crew. If attacked, the yacht and its commandos will retaliate with grenade launchers, machine guns and rock launchers. For additional sums of money, the guests will be provided with ammo and their own AK-47 to fire off.
What do you think? Part of me says, “Way to go!” But the more sensible side says that a UN-lead force should protect the international waters–and to date, they’ve done a terrible job.
Read about the Luxury Yacht offer here.
June 28th, 2009 on 11:36 pm
Hurrah! Hunting season is open. Given that the UN and most of the world’s nations – including the US – have been completely unwilling to do anything to protect merchant seamen I think this idea although politically incorrect has serious merit.
I suspect that if the pirates were attacking more cruise ships and mega yachts, there would be more of a response from seafaring nations; the UN is nothing more than a debating club for dictators and their corrupt thugs.