Evidently one Somali pirate mother ship has returned to port after failing to locate the lifeboat and the Bainbridge: click here for report

Communications between the lifeboat and the pirate home bases has become more complicated since the pirates aboard the lifeboat decided to deep-six their satellite phone and radio; the pirates may have feared that their communications gear served as listening devices for the U.S. intelligence. Somali pirates are not so dumb, evidently. However, now their only recourse to communicating with their home base is by shouting, or via CNN or Mudcat.

Interesting.

Charley Noble