The Real Story Behind Captain Phillips and the Maersk Alabama - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast

Ship Hits The Fan

Rooster Teeth

Documentary, Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.4 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

April 8, 2009. The Maersk Alabama is traveling to Kenya with a load of food aid when it’s attacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean. It’s the first time in two centuries that a US flagged ship has been seized by pirates. What happened next became an international sensation, and the subject of a blockbuster movie, starring Tom Hanks. Go to http://meundies.com/shiphitsfan to get 15% off your first order. Go to http://solostove.com and use promo code SHIPHITSTHEFAN for $10 off on top of their incredible 4th of July Sale discounts. Follow us on social: https://twitter.com/mc_lotta https://twitter.com/handsomemaster2 https://twitter.com/briangaar Are you a FIRST Member and need your Private RSS feed for this show? Go here: bit.ly/FIRSTRSS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a rooster teeth production.
0:04.0	April 8, 2009.
0:12.0	The Murrask, Alabama is traveling to Kenya with a load of food aid
0:18.0	when it's attacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean.
0:20.0	It's the first time in two
0:21.8	centuries that a U.S. flagged ship has been seized by pirates. What happened next became an
0:27.1	international sensation and the subject of a blockbuster movie starring Tom Hanks. I'm Charlotte.
0:32.8	I'm Patrick. I'm Brian. Ahoy and welcome aboard ship hits the fan, a podcast about some of history's most notable uh-ohs and whoopsies on the high seas.
0:41.9	The days of swashbuckling are long past.
0:44.9	In these waters, not sails, but speedboats.
0:47.8	No six-pistled blackbeard, but two guys with firearms.
0:51.4	You've seen the movie, but there may be more to be learned yet.
0:55.0	For so too does heartbreak feel good
0:56.7	in a place like this,
0:58.2	hmm?
0:59.1	We three odd, lonely children
1:01.0	reaching for eternity
1:02.2	shall guide you,
1:03.7	and all we ask is that you,
1:05.2	look at us,
1:06.2	look at us,
1:07.4	we are the podcasters now.
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