Friday, January 2, 2009

Crew fight off pirates with high pressure water jets


ATHENS, Greece - Crewmen fired high pressure water jets to fight off heavily armed Somali pirates trying to board a Greek oil tanker in the dangerous Gulf of Aden on Friday in the fourth such attack since the start of the year, authorities said. The pirates in three speedboats and armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades twice tried to board the Greek-flagged Kriti Episkopi but were scared off when the crew turned fire hoses on them and EU aircraft scrambled from a nearby EU naval flotilla to help. More... Discover Magazine: Discount Price at Magazine Lane - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Dollar Days