This dramatic story was also transformed into an Academy-Award and Golden-Globe nominated film, Captain Phillips, which hit the big screens in fall of 2013. Richard Phillips' back and concluded he was in “imminent danger.”Ĭaptain Richard Phillips is the author of A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea, about his experience and his remarkable rescue. Based on a true story, the film focuses on the Alabamas commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips (two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks, Best Actor. The standoff dragged on until April 12th, when Navy SEAL snipers saw one of the pirates aim his AK-47 machine gun at Capt. On Friday April 10th, Captain Phillips jumped out of the lifeboat and managed to swim a few yards toward the nearby destroyer, but the pirates went in after him and managed to haul him back in. CAPTAIN PHILLIPS is the true story of the kidnapping of Captain Richard Phillips and his crew by Somali pirates in 2009. By the time Captain Phillips moves into its third act, replete with claustrophobic lifeboat chases, night vision Navy Seal deployments and cross-hair tension on an epic scale (this is a film in. Navy responded to the scene, and negotiations were ongoing between the pirates and the captain of the USS Bainbridge. Held hostage as a human shield in a small lifeboat with three pirates, he had little to hope for or cling to - except the knowledge that he had done absolutely everything he could to save the lives of the 20 sailors aboard his ship. After they released their captive, the pirates refused to honor the agreement and fled with nine days of food rations and Captain Phillips. Once the pirates settled into one of the ship's covered lifeboats, the crew attempted to trade the pirate they had captured for Captain Phillips. Amid the standoff, he offered himself as a hostage. To protect his crew, Captain Phillips made a conscious decision to put himself directly in harm's way, knowing full well that he might pay the ultimate price for his decision. Wrong Side of the Story: How Captain Phillips Affected a Somali Community. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be. Firing into the air as they leapt aboard the ship, many of the crew members scrambled into a designated safe room aboard the vessel. The hostage drama began on Wednesday, April 8th when a small band of pirates swung grappling hooks and climbed ropes from their skiff onto the Maersk Alabama, a container ship ferrying food aid to East Africa. The Maersk Alabama was 380 miles off the. ship Maersk Alabama in 2009, and on the memoirs of Richard Phillips, the captain of the title. Phillips had been a merchant mariner for 30 years, 19 of them as a captain, when four pirates wielding AK-47s climbed aboard his ship on April 8, 2009. His courage is a model for all Americans.įor five days in April 2009, the world was glued to their TV screens as Captain Richard Phillips became the center of an extraordinary international drama when he was captured by Somali pirates who hijacked his ship, the first hijacking of a U.S. The film is based on the real-life hijacking of the U.S. I share the country's admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for hisĬrew.
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