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scotch_drinker on Feb 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rolls-Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375B Freight In...

It was still released after an estimated $3 million ransom. If it had no crew, how would they have been able to achieve this ransom?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Sirius_Star

dragonwriter on Feb 25, 2014 [–]

The $3 million ransom was a small price for a ship and cargo worth, together, a quarter billion dollars. Even for an unmanned ship, the owner has plenty of reason to to pay ransoms that are a literally pennies on the dollar compared to losing the ship completely.

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