Days before the seal intervention pirates had raided the the us flagged cargo ship maersk alabama as it passed through the gulf of aden. On easter sunday april 12 2009 us special operations forces included seal team 6 staged a dramatic rescue of a us captain of cargo ship who had been taken hostage by somali pirates. Navy seals rescue captain phillips from pirate captors.
Repeated shots show helicopters ships and boats all over the little orange lifeboat with all. What s most worrying about captain phillips is its full on celebration of the navy s hugeness. While these efforts slowed the pirates down and even persuaded some of them to turn back they did not keep one group of four pirates all between 17 and 19 years old from boarding the ship where.
Navy to try to suggest to the pirates that help would soon be on the way. The captain of the ship richard phillips even faked a call to the u s. The true story of captain richard phillips and the 2009 hijacking by somali pirates of the u s flagged mv maersk alabama the first american cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
With tom hanks barkhad abdi barkhad abdirahman catherine keener. Directed by paul greengrass. Captain phillips the lifeboat lose control and the u s.
It was the first successful pirate seizure of a ship registered under. 280 mi southeast of eyl somalia the siege ended after a rescue effort by the united states navy on 12 april. The maersk alabama hijacking led to a series of maritime events that began on 8 april 2009 when four pirates in the indian ocean seized the cargo ship maersk alabama at a distance of 240 nautical miles 440 km.
