When Max comes sailing over the horizon, his foes have good reason to start quaking with fear. In a story that could be lifted straight from a Hollywood script, the bearded 62-year-old is the only man in the world who steals ships from pirates.
The high seas repo man has recovered ‘around 15’ hijacked vessels in the last 25 years.
He had taken on everyone from Russian mobsters to real-life pirates of the Caribbean.
His latest mission is to tackle the heavily armed gangs working off the coast of Somalia, where four Americans were shot dead on a yacht last month and British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler were kidnapped and held for a year.
‘There is a strong possibility we will go out there in the next couple of weeks,’ said the Louisiana-based captain, whose company is called Vessel Extractions.
‘It would work by boarding the pirate ships and taking control one man at a time. If there are hostages, we have stun grenades. We are not looking to kill anyone and if we catch a pirate, they have the option right there to go free, so long as they have a boat of their own or don’t mind swimming to shore.
‘My team is ex-special forces and Swat and most of them are veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.’
With ransom demands running up to £20million, shipping companies pay him big bucks to retrieve their ships.
‘The US Navy are saying there can be up to 100 pirates on some of these boats in Somalia. It has to be meticulously planned,’ he added.
at 11pm on Thursday night. The outboard motor on the Zodiac boat had broken down.
on the public highway in the region, with fines to be placed on both the prostitutes and their clients.
, during which he was photographed with the prince sitting at the same table.
