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The Power of Fear and Desperation
I was worried that there would just be some sort of curtain of gunfire. It turned out no Somali fired a shot. So imagine the desperation we are jumping off a boat off the coast of Africa with people who are probably trying to shoot at you with rifles while you're swimming around. I don't know what's going on then. That was the big fear. See, I expected that the ship, which was not in terrific condition, would just keep moving and that they wouldn't be able to turn it around. But they did something sort of half-assed. They let it come back towards me on this swell that I had chosen to sort of follow off the ship and eventually would have