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COMMENTS: Food, Juice, Fuel--and a Hostage
First Mate Shane Murphy and Second Mate Colin Wright recounted last Wednesday's confrontation on board the Alabama in Jim Sciutto's Exclusive for ABC. The Maersk Line crew had been trained not to resist a pirate boarding party but some of them did anyway. They thought they had successfully repelled the gun toting quartet and persuaded them to leave before the USS Bainbridge should arrive on the scene. As an incentive Captain Richard Phillips gave them food, juice, fuel and a lifeboat to replace the pirate speedboat, which was disabled. Then a "disastrous turn," Sciutto recounted. The captain was in the lifeboat to explain how to sail it when he was taken hostage. "There never was a plan to exchange Phillips for the pirates."
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