Another five days passed, as the destroyer USS Bainbridge waited nearby for an opportunity to free him using psychological and technoloiical warfare tactics. They were high from chewing an amphetamine-like leaf known as khat and carrying AK-47 assault rifles.Īfter a tense skirmish on the Maersk, during which the crew of 20 men took refuge in a locked engine room, Philips was forced to board a 28-foot fiberglass lifeboat with the pirates. Four scrawny boys, none older than 19, approached the U.S.-flagged vessel in a small skiff. Nine days into the voyage, the journey went awry 240 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia, where piracy is a virtual cottage industry. The unarmed freighter was navigating the vast Indian Ocean en route to Kenya. His ship at the time, the Maersk Alabama, carried 17,000 metric tons of cargo, about one-third of it food relief supplies for Africa.
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I wondered how it would affect me but what actually happened was a lot worse than that."Īnyone who has seen the harrowing movie might wonder what was worse than being repeatedly punched, kicked and choked? "The mock executions," Phillips explained. "I saw an almost-finished version on the West Coast in June.
On the big screen, his story is "a good action film," Phillips said. But he could relate to my story because his father is a retired merchant mariner." He also had extensive talks with the director, Paul Greengrass ( United 93), and they apparently clicked: "He's another down-to-earth person. The screenwriter, Billy Ray ( The Hunger Games) met several times with Phillips. They both ordered an item devised as a salute the town's local hero soon after the piracy ordeal ended: "The Captain Phillips," which is toasted and consists of roast beef, Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato and onion on a sub roll. I got us a couple of sandwiches from the Underhill Country Store." "He came here to study me," Phillips explained. 11 release about the Vermonter's 2009 capture by Somali pirates and subsequent rescue by the Navy's fabled SEAL Team Six. Hanks stars in the title role of Captain Phillips, an Oct. Given that Hollywood often seems like a haven for pretentious behavior, Richard Phillips was impressed that Tom Hanks came across as "a regular guy." The actor visited Phillips, a cargo ship captain, at his 19th-century farmhouse here three times in the past two years. Watch Video: Real Captain Phillips says movie about him is 'surreal'
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