For several days in April, globalrnnews networks focused on a small group of men crowded into a lone lifeboat bobbing around in the Gulf of Aden. Events took place during the Maersk Alabama hijacking that would have defied the imagination of the average Hollywood scriptwriter: a crew fightback, an attempted escape and a conclusion that saw military snipers, acting under presidential orders, saving the life of the vessel's selfless master. The story managed to spike interest in maritime security in a way that not even the audacious hijacking of Sirius Star last November succeeded in doing.
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