Ship Captains Sue ExxonMobil over Pirate Attack off Nigeria
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September 4, 2010
Two men who captained the supply ship Fast Servant are suing ExxonMobil and the company they worked for, Edison Chouest Offshore, claiming a fuel tracking system installed on their ship led to pirates attacking and injuring them off the coast of Nigeria in an area that has been plagued by piracy.
Co-captains Rex Blanton and Kevin Norris say ExxonMobil endangered them by equipping their ship with outdated radio communications equipment rather than satellite phones, thus allowing pirates to locate the ship, which they then stormed early in the morning of July 17 while the captains were trying to return to a secure rendezvous point after supplying an ExxonMobil oil rig.
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