Hijacked on the High Seas

A few hours after dawn on the Friday after Thanksgiving, a speedboat carrying five men with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades raced toward a massive tanker in the Gulf of Aden. They fired at the ship as they approached, denting the hull.
The skinny, barefoot men wearing T-shirts and shorts hitched an aluminum ladder to the railing and scampered up to the deck. They shot through a window of the bridge, which the crew had locked. The ship's captain hit the distress button.
At 12:05 a.m. that day, James Christodoulou awoke to the ringing of the bedside phone in his New Jersey apartment. Pirates had captured his company's tanker, the MV Biscaglia, a company security official told him.
"Say that again?" Mr. Christodoulou replied.
The news thrust the 48-year-old chief executive of Industrial Shipping Enterprises Corp., a tiny Stamford, Conn.-based company, and the crew of 28 men onto the front lines of a rash of piracy targeted at huge ships sailing off the coast of Somalia en route to the Suez Canal..more..http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123335651246634995.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us