Pralav Dhyani

Hijacked (eBook, ePUB)

A True Story of Surviving 331 Days with Somali Pirates

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On 11 April 2010, Pralav Dhyani, a freshly minted deck officer in training on a cargo merchant vessel, was contemplating the intense discipline life at sea would require from him, when armed pirates forcefully boarded the ship off the coast of Africa. As confusion ensued, one thing became clear to Pralav: the MV RAK Afrikana was being hijacked. It was the beginning of a nightmare that Pralav-then all of twenty-one-has never been able to forget.

The crew was taken to an obscure location in Somalia, from where negotiations commenced with their ship's company for their release. For 331 days, the small band of men, who had come together from different countries to earn a living for their families, stuck together through mock executions and mental torture, terror and betrayal, as a complex web of politics and piracy revealed itself to them. It would be eleven months before Pralav and his crew mates would be free again.

A compelling story of hardship and the power of human resilience, Hijacked is a thrilling first-person account of the perils of being a maritime officer and how treacherous life on the high seas can be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins India
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789365691665
• Artikelnr.: 73531886

Autorenporträt

Pralav Dhyani started his journey in the world of shipping at age of twenty-one. After the kidnapping that changed his life, he went back to the UAE to establish ARC Continental FZE, a ship brokerage and consulting firm.