By GI Korea on February 16th, 2011 at 1:00 pm

Picture of the Day: People Actually Fish Off This Ship?

A South Korean fishing vessel, the Geummi 305, which was recently freed after four months of seizure by Somali pirates, enters the Kenyan port of Mombasa on Feb. 15. (Yonhap)

Via Yonhap News.

• Leon LaPorte
  9:50 am on February 16th, 2011 1

  The REAL Deadliest Catch.

• john
  10:35 am on February 16th, 2011 2

  Possible reasons pirates let the vessel go.

  1. saw what SK UDT can do and realized it's not worth it to keep the SK fishing vessel around

  2. pirates realized they are not getting the $, when the owner allows such a small/poorly maintained ship to leave port, especially when the OWNER of the vessel is ON the hijacked vessel.

• setnaffa
  10:35 am on February 16th, 2011 3

  "People Actually Fish Off This Ship?"

  I would have asked if people actually EAT the fish caught by this ship; but remember it has probably not been expertly maintained for at least the months in captivity… Salt water is pretty corrosive… Never having been in the actual Navy, I think this one looks bad because of the shanty-town folks who held it…

• archieb
  12:04 pm on February 16th, 2011 4

  The S.S. Minnow looks more seaworthy.

• ChickenHead
  2:09 pm on February 16th, 2011 5

  "Possible reasons pirates let the vessel go."

  1. South Korean special forces came in gun 'a blazin' for another Korean ship and word spread.

• Reddog245
  12:42 am on February 17th, 2011 6

  Looks like a bit more than 4 months of rust, even in salt water, but agree with Setnaffa, asking "Do people EAT the fish caught off this ship?"

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