It was just another day on the job for Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama.
Richard Phillips was ready..
This was it: the moment where training meets instinct and where character is everything.
And when he was held captive by the pirates, he marshaled all his resources to ensure his own survival, withstanding intense physical hardship and an escalating battle of wills with the pirates.
When the Pirates boarded his ship, Captain Phillips put his experience into action, doing everything he could to safeguard his crew.
A story of adventure and courage, it provides the intimate details of this high-seas hostage-taking--the unbearable heat, the death threats, the mock executions, and the escape attempt.
A Captain\'s Duty tells the life-and-death drama of the Vermont native who was held captive on a tiny lifeboat off Somalia\'s anarchic, gun-plagued shores.
And he\'s right.
It never ends like this, Captain Phillips said.
Navy SEALs opened fire and picked off three of the captors.
Thus began the tense five-day stand-off, which ended in a daring high-seas rescue when U.
S.
The Pirates didn\'t expect the crew to fight back, nor did they expect Captain Phillips to offer himself as hostage in exchange for the safety of his crew.
That all changed when armed Somali Pirates boarded the ship.
It was just another day on the job for fifty-three-year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, the United States-flagged cargo ship which was carrying, among other things, food and agricultural materials for the World Food Program.
A Captain\'s Duty tells the dramatic life-and-death tale of Phillips\' captivity and his daring escape.
That all changed when armed Somali Pirates boarded the ship.
It was just another day on the job for Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama
