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April 5, 2014
An American who was kidnapped by crack-smoking pirates and held hostage for almost three weeks has revealed how he tried to kill his assailants by electrocuting them.
Captain Wren Thomas, from Sidney, Ill., was held captive after the oil supply ship C-Retriever was attacked off Nigeria’s coast on Oct. 23.
In a new interview, the retired Marine told how he and his chief engineer – who is also American – were treated “like animals” during their ordeal.
“It’s about as close as a person could get to being a P.O.W,” Thomas said.
The abduction sparked an international manhunt and fears grew that the pair had been killed after their 222-foot vessel was found abandoned in a Nigerian port. But they had been taken ashore.
Thomas and his colleague were eventually released after the pirates were paid off.
“Some of them were particularly cruel to us,” Thomas recalled in an interview with Rob Almeida of shipping news site, gCaptain. “The stifling air was filled with smoke from crack and pot the entire time.”
Thomas said the pair given food “every other day” – a packet of ramen noodles. “And on the days the negotiators would make them angry, we wouldn’t eat,” he said.
Thomas said that his Marine training came in useful but he “knew not to f*** with these people.”
He added: “I did push them as far as I could and then I would back down. I knew not to p*** off a Nigerian. Or worse a Nigerian pirate, or even worse a Nigerian pirate on drugs. I was surrounded by the last kind.”
One attempt to befriend a kidnapper ended in failure when the Nigerian lost his temper.
“He asked if I wanted some tea,” Thomas told gCaptain. “I told him ‘yes’ then when he got around to it about an hour later I told him I didn’t want it, since the caffeine probably wouldn’t be good for me. He went completely nuts and told me not to ever make him angry again or I would regret it. He had Satan in his eyes. I apologized to him and accepted some tea.”
The C-Retriever came under attack as the ship made its way through the Gulf of Guinea, a notorious piracy hotspot.
The crew barricaded themselves in the ship’s bulk tank room but the pirates cut their way in using an angle grinder.
In an attempt to thwart the attack, Thomas and his chief engineer sprayed water at the grinder – giving one of the pirates an electric shock.
“That made them mad,” Thomas recalled.
As soon as the grinder had cut a large enough hole, the pirates began firing blindly into the room using an AK-47. Faced with ricocheting bullets, Thomas and his companion surrendered.
