Husband & wife inventors set to make millions out of ingenious rail that stops shipping pirates from

[snagglepuss]

boarding.


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It has already been fitted to a 100 ships and in May this year prevented it's first attack in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Nigeria


The design is a large plastic P shape which is fitted over the railings of ships and hangs over them.


It works by making it impossible for pirates to board boats by throwing ladders and grappling hooks because they can't over the ledge it forms.



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So simple. You wonder why it took so long.

[Warpy]

1. They probably got the idea from people

trying to squirrel-proof their bird feeders.

Since it's made of plastic, pirates will just use their machine guns to blast through it. Eventually, the design will need to be metal or plastic reinforced with metal.

[snagglepuss]

2. LOL. Dollars to donuts you are probably bang on.

[OregonBlue]

3. Brilliant. I looked at the pictures. It would be hard to shoot it off. They can put holes in it but

they'd have to be able to shoot the entire length of the part that covers the railing in order to get if off.

[HolyMoley]

4. .50 caliber machine guns and handheld rocket launchers

are excellent deterrents too... just saying.

[Logical]

5. Security costs about $50,000 a trip. The odds are cheaper to not have security. n-t

[HolyMoley]

7. Battle stations, all hands on deck... this is not a drill

I don't know how commercial shipping delegates job responsibilities or assignments, but if attacked, every sailor from cook, radar operator, mess kit repairman should be security if threatened.

[Logical]

8. Not sure it is as easy as you think. Many are just ship workers. Maybe never fired a gun. Crews....

are not stable either between trips.

Great book about it, Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

[Logical]

6. The pirates will redesign the hooks. When you are desperate, you find a solution. n-t