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A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy Seals, and Dangerous Days at Sea

A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy Seals, and Dangerous Days at Sea

Phillips, Richard
Talty, Stephan

Paperback

Aviation & NauticalBiographies GeneralTrue Crime

ISBN10: 1401310443
ISBN13: 9781401310448
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: Jan 18 2011
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

The heroic tale of Captain Phillips, who was held captive on a lifeboat by Somali pirates--and survived.

It was just another day on the job for fifty-three-year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, the United States-flagged cargo ship which was carrying, among other things, food and agricultural materials for the World Food Program. That all changed when armed Somali pirates boarded the ship. The pirates didn't expect the crew to fight back, nor did they expect Captain Phillips to offer himself as hostage in exchange for the safety of his crew. Thus began the tense five-day stand-off, which ended in a daring high-seas rescue when U.S. Navy SEALs opened fire and picked off three of the captors.

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