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DerBayer80
1 month ago

It’s pretty simple. Water pressure makes it almost impossible to drive pirates so close to the ship to even enter. Pirates come today with very small boats. These run the risk of being sunk by the water jet or the crew of which is being run by board.

The extinguishing cannons are also movable

MartinusDerNerd
1 month ago
Reply to  DerBayer80

But this is only effective up to a certain minimum distance.

If these fast boats were able to get too close, or to avoid the water jet (by tricks), this defense technique no longer uses.

Then you also need an effective near defense and a functional enter defense.

It’s like when a knight castle had to be defended.

Only the then catapult, (brand)arrow and burning “luck” were used.

Even then there were “measures” and “measures” for the different distances.

DerBayer80
1 month ago

That’s clear. But for the first time, it’s already scaring. Meanwhile, many shipping companies are also going to have on board private security teams that are armed.

MartinusDerNerd
1 month ago

Right.

I saw a couple of docuses on TV.

And water for defense also has a deescaling effect.

For lethal weapons can involve revenge and more aggressive attacks.

ponter
1 month ago

On the other hand, the principle of water thrower, as is used by police authorities.

The generated water pressure used on ships in this respect is somewhat higher.

Smaller boat types used by pirates can cause considerable damage to a full load of this water cannon. In the best case, the occupants are washed out of the boat.

As far as theory, in practice, it usually looks a little different.

Hamburger02
1 month ago

Probably you’ve never seen a water cannon on a ship. There’s so much pressure on every pirate to shoot right out of his boat. No one can stand against this pressure.

They promote up to 30,000 liters per minute, that’s 500 l per second. Every smaller boat has been filled with water within a few seconds.

TerenceKing
1 month ago

Water cannons are used on many ships to prevent the pirates from climbing the wall – redundancy Beluga Shipping GmbH (founded in December 1995 as a “cargo operator” in Bremen) can, for example, mix chemicals into the water used for the cannons, which burn the attackers in their eyes.

The semi-automatically remote-controlled marine fire-extinguishing tubes (also called anti-pirate fire-extinguishing tubes) are very powerful and, on the other hand, work with high-pressure water to prevent the pirate from entering. This defense strategy will certainly be used to combat pirates (mostly with small boats) from a distance

Also interesting: a certainly less successful method is to put dolls on deck, which should either pretend guards or soldiers.

Chris428
1 month ago

I saw this at a cruise dock. The hoses are not fixed, but can be aligned with boats/pirates. A standard C hose of the fire brigade can generate 11 to 16 bar pressure, there is no one standing and soft parts, such as eyes, do not stay in their place. I remember the unfortunate encounter of Demonstrators with a water thrower from the police in Stuttgart Anno 2019 and a water thrower does not have so much pressure.

Dea2019
1 month ago

Do you have any idea what water pressure is going to work with? You won’t get the smaller boats off and against the pressure if you want to crawl over the boarding wall.

With the principle, the police are also working with water throwers against crowds of people is not uncommon. The police just have the problem with the “water supply”, the water throwers are not really mobile.

When it comes to boats, it’s different. They just need pumps.

Ifosil
1 month ago

It’s okay, but firearms are more effective (logical). Used on some ships.

HolgieXX
1 month ago
Reply to  Ifosil

Firearms are likely to be more human than to baptize in the sea when the small speedboat was filled with water and drops.

ZuumZuum
1 month ago

Once you wash away with 120 cubic meters of water per minute, you know why water from the extinguishing cannons can be effective against pirates.

suumcuique5786
1 month ago

just as it also stops demonstrators…. is only a question of pressure and attached chemicals.

Kbeacker
1 month ago

Water cannons can already be effective. But I don’t understand why water cannons mount when you can mount the machine gun Mg3? One, as I find, better and more definitive solution for the pirate problem. 1300/Shot the minute problem-oriented solution material. 😆

Chrisi614
1 month ago

This certainly doesn’t even reach the ship

annie80
1 month ago
Reply to  Chrisi614

That’s why it does. The pirates do not reach the ship.

grisu2101
1 month ago

That would be too expensive for me to use the lead syringes.

archibaldesel
1 month ago

It’s not a pirate defense, it’s a fireboat at a parade.