5 month contracts are the minimum, though most of the time people go through 6 and 9 month contracts. As for a big supply of volunteers, that's not the case. In countries with small fleets that might be the case but for a country like Greece with 5,200+ vessels, they struggle to find enough officers and captains, hence why these people get paid this much money. They are rare and precious to the companies, but at the same not so precious to guarantee expensive guards on the ship.
The only time companies bother with security is when their cargo is really, really expensive. Usually LNG carriers and tankers get security. Cargo ships and bulk carriers are left defenseless
Elijah Lewis
Why tell them? All you'd need is an arms locker somewhere a cursory inspection isn't going to find it, and the crew can fight back. I'm rather surprised crews aren't doing this by themselves.
Dylan Morris
It only takes one liberal faggot to rat out the whole operation.
Juan Powell
Nobody asked, but, while the engine does actually start with a press of a button, that's only after it's been prepared to start. For that, you need to open starter tank valves, compressed air line valves, fuel line valves, oil line valves, cooling water valves, close all check valves, start water pump, oil pump, fuel pump, ensure that all pressures read above minimum levels, and after that the motor will start with a press of a button. And that's excluding all of the electronic engine control fuckery. Even experienced crew sometimes fuck it up and it doesn't start the first time or pressure/temperature alarm rings few seconds into operation. Without knowing you need to do all that you'd never get it to work, and it's not enough just to know you need to do this - you also need to know locations of all the relevant valves and switches, and sure enough none of them are labeled. If you didn't open compressed air valves, it wouldn't crank. If you didn't close check valves, it would crank but wouldn't start. If you didn't open fuel valves, it wouldn't start. If you didn't start fuel motor, it wouldn't start. If you didn't do any of the rest, it would start but would seize within a few minutes. The fun part is that starter tanks can only crank the motor a dozen revolutions or so. If you ran out of starting compressed air on a ship with no power to run the compressor to refill starter tanks, then you'd be shit out of luck. Fun bit of technical trivial.
unless only the captain knows of the stash and where on the boat it is. It's a big boat and you probably only really need hunting rifles to make the pirates pick elsewhere to go. Hell, a crate of nuggets somewhere in the ship could already be all you need. You can still pick them up in Ukraine somwhere and only really need a few capable shooters, while the rest can just provide volley fire for effect. Later on, dump the crate with the rest of the crew. Get a new one on board without the crew finding out. Maybe in a fake container somewhere deep in the hold.
That said, how do small arms get shipped? It would be rather funny if a couple of containers away had been a perfectly fine HK G36 or LMT AR15 shipment during a piracy incident.
Kayden Adams
Can you manage to make an even greater embarrassment of yourself, g*rmanic shill?
Bentley Cruz
Probably try to knock them off-course with my firefighting systems on-board. At that point, send an emergency signal, rob the kitchen for cutlery/booze, leave broken glass on the ground with the lights turned off/power cut to the lights systems, and wait for the dindus who can't afford shoes to step on broken glass before beating the shit out of them. We'll probably lose a man or two, but it's not like Dindus can aim or anything.
Robert Brown
Does 'check valve' mean something different in Rus/Engineer parlance? Because to me 'check valve' means a valve that will only let fluid flow in one direction. Not unless you mean 'check' as in 'open this valve, and if gas/air/oil starts spewing out it means you have pressure in that line'.
Because of course it's not. You could theoretically trace the fluid conduits back from the engine to find the valves and whatnot, but that takes time and mechanical aptitude, of which I doubt the Somalis have either in ample supply.
I realize that you don't turn these engines on and off all that often, but that still seems like a design flaw. Is having a 5HP Briggs & Stratton air compressor for a backup really something that would break the bank?
I really, really hope you're just making all this up. The more I hear about the military from Zig Forumsommandos, the more I want decimatio to be enacted.
