Seafarer Recalls 110 Days in Pirate Captivity -- The Danger RoomMOMBASA, KENYA -- Captain Edward Kalendero, 51, commands a skittish crew. While Kalendero so far has avoided kidnapping, many of the nine seafarers serving under him aboard the small coastal cargo ship Semlow have been captured and ransomed by pirates during their years at sea. Semlow herself was hijacked back in 2005 during a mission to deliver U.N. food aid to Mogadishu. Now the unlucky ship and her tense-as-Hell crew are getting ready to sail back into pirate waters, for the umpteenth time. Semlow will sail alongside the HMS Northumberland frigate to carry hundreds of tons of split peas and other humanitarian cargo to Somalia.
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