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Cruise Ship goes dark to avoid Pirates
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08/11/2017 05:02 AM
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Re: Cruise Ship goes dark to avoid Pirates
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08/11/2017 09:15 AM
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I read that the other day. Way to ruin 10 days of people's vacation! I've got to say though, wouldn't these pirates have radar? If so, it would be pretty hard to miss a cruise ship.
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Re: Cruise Ship goes dark to avoid Pirates
[Re: Carol_Hill]
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08/11/2017 10:54 AM
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That ship is HUGE! You could blackout everything that could possibly be visible from outside, and still have plenty of lights on, and stuff going on, inside the ship. Put a bit of a crimp on things, yeah, but I can't see this really ruining the cruise.
And, no, actually, most of the pirates are operating out of extremely rudimentary boats. Some probably have radar available, but I doubt that it is very many.
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Re: Cruise Ship goes dark to avoid Pirates
[Re: denverd0n]
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08/11/2017 11:41 AM
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Huh. I wouldn't think they could overpower a cruise ship with a boat that doesn't even have radar.
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