Pirates thwarted with MP3 sonic blast
November 21, 2008
Somali pirates who seized a Ukrainian cargo ship return to their base in October 2008. British firm 'Anti-Piracy Maritime Security Solutions' is spearheading the use of a high-tech "sonic laser" to beat pirates on the high seas. APMSS has developed an acoustic device which blast the target with a precise beam of sound which can be turned up to excruciatingly painful level.
Gone are the swashbuckling days of repelling pirates with cutlasses -- a British firm is spearheading use of a high-tech "sonic laser" to beat bandits on the high seas.
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2 or more years ago a cruise ship
used a similar thing , also with
success, per newspaper articles.
Its interesting that the operators
of the device can identify the
attackers' 'native language' from
600 meters away .. mmmm...
Esperanto, perhaps??
I prefer the method the Indians used a few days ago. Far more effective. Once a pirates hearing is damaged/gone, LRAD probably won't be very effective. I imagine they could find men that would live with being deaf to pirate millions of dollars.
*snicker*
Piracy is more profitable than agriculture. People don't always commit crimes because there is no opertinity. More often than not the dishonest professions make more cash than the honest ones.
They need to be eliminated.
Illegal under international law.
I think shooting a automatic gun roughly in their direction as a warning would probably be more effective and faster...
I think if loud enough, your whole body feels like it's in agony.
A couple of problems:
1) The range is 1000 meters. This puts the target within range of medium weight infantry weapons (much less naval) and even some light weight missiles.
2) Sound at these levels can and do cause physical damage given long enough exposure. The first thing exposure to loud noise tends to do is make you emotionally unstable, angry in other words. If it doesn't drive you off your going to do nasty things to the people on the ship you take.
3) If some ships using this system suffer from massacres what will other ship owners/crew do?
4) It's a touchy-feely solution. Arming the ships with real weapons (even if international law says 'no') and increasing the patrolling of those waters will make the job less inviting to those eager for easy money.