Indian Navy Foils Pirates, Again

[kingofkings]

At about 6 AM on 11 Nov, about 450 nautical miles West of Mumbai, a merchant ship MV BBC Orinoco with a crew of 14 (5 Ukraine and 9 Philippino) reported being attacked by pirates. The crew locked themselves in the ships Engine room and the Steering compartment and communicated with their agents, UK MTO Dubai, on e-mail. Dubai, in turn, intimated the Indian Navy for assistance.

On receipt of this information, the Indian Navy promptly detached one of its missile corvettes, INS Veer, to intercept the distressed vessel and also sailed a destroyer INS Delhi with a team of Marine Commandos (MARCOS) embarked. One of the Navy's long range maritime ratrol aircraft (Ilyushin-38) was extensively deployed for aerial surveillance. The Indian Coast Guard, too, responded with alacrity adjusting all routine deployments to keep one or more Dornier aircraft on hot standby, besides asking their ships on assigned mission to be also on stand-by.

At daybreak, the naval forces, which had arrived at the scene, commenced their actions. MARCOS slithered onto the merchant ship from a Sea King helicopter and took the crew, who were locked in compartments, to safety, while the helicopter provided air borne fire support. The merchantman was boarded by naval personnel and a thorough search is currently in progress. The ship will set course for its destination once the boarding party reports all clear. Although no pirates remain onboard, implements such as crow bar, knives etc., were found aboard the ship.

MV BBC Orinoco is a General Cargo Carrier and is registered in Antigua and Barbuda.

 

[Vajra_Yuddh]

How 'bout this time the Navy lets these pirates drown to their deaths and not give them the easy way out? Or better let fish eat them up so that it becomes a kind of mind game against pirates not to meddle with commercial ships.

 

[kingofkings]

^^^ Dude that is cruel.

If we do so there will be no difference between them and us.

 

[flameboard]

Some of these pirates are just immoral theifs exploiting other people's property. But remember you have to see fit form both sides. The problem is that international ships have been dumping their waste around Somalian, this has killed much of the sea life. With the number of fish going down people took to the sees to find alternative ways of protecting their shores and making money.

The Somalian navy doesn't even have a ship. It needs to be equipped and ship needs to be regulated. As recovery efforts to bring back the ocean ecosystem of Somalia are placed piracy will surely go down as well.

 

[INDIAN007]

Good Job By our Navy

 

[jamesbaldwin]

Awesome pics, one question is it usual to have a warship on duty in this region all the time with Marine Special forces based on board?? would make more sense if they were stationed on shore, find it unusual on-board a ship all the time.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Awesome pics, one question is it usual to have a warship on duty in this region all the time with Marine Special forces based on board?? would make more sense if they were stationed on shore, find it unusual on-board a ship all the time.

Larger ships almost invariably have a detachment of marines/MARCOs on board, e.g. the Carrier and Destroyers. MARCOs may be assigned to other ships as well depending on their tasking. Before the advent of the MARCOs, IN ships had sailors trained for similar tasks as the MARCOs but not exactly to the same pitch. They were trained for 'boarding party' and 'landing party' duties, apart from the task of repelling boarders, esp. at anchor or in ports. BTW, even small teams of divers and frogmen have historically been assigned to ships.

 

[sathya]

it will be good training exercise for navy...
small task but real one...

 

[BS_Buster]

way to gooooo navy. i love you.

 

[Mirza Jatt]

good job Indian navy

 

[Vajra_Yuddh]

^^^ Dude that is cruel.

If we do so there will be no difference between them and us.

There's a difference--we're not apologetic of their death and we're a nation's representation as to what happens to those who attack innocent. Evil deserves evil.