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115: Michael Scott Moore | What It's Really like to Be a Pirate Hostage

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How to Communicate With the Pirates on the Ship

The only way I could communicate was every once in a while when the pirates gave me a phone. But on land I had learned to flash the sky with Morse code because I had bummed a cigarette from a pirate and also sort of calmed his lighter that had an LED at the end. So whenever I would go out to pee I would actually aim the lighter at the sky either at dusk or dawn, you know, when it was sort of half dark. And use a toilet paper roll to contain the flare and I flashed SOS at the sky, hoping that somebody would notice, you know.

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