Water Cannons Anti-Piracy System

Improved Essays
Water cannon is another non-lethal weapon which is extensively used on merchant vessels. As an anti-piracy method, the device delivers powerful and impenetrable stream of water that blows away pirates trying to board the ship. The cannon can also quickly fill the pirates’ boats to slow them down and hinder their maneuverability.
Most of the water cannon anti-piracy systems can be remotely controlled from a safe position on ships.

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Farewell to Manzanar Discussion Questions Chapter 1 1. Describe what kind of a person Papa is. 2. Why did the fishing boats all come back shortly after they left the dock? 3.…

    • 79 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Vogon Rhetorical Analysis

    • 354 Words
    • 2 Pages

    On the Vogon ship, we're shown the Vogons and the baton of this fleet, Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz. The Vogons are adamant and abhorrent creatures. For instance, their home planet has admirable adorned crabs that the Vogons adore smashing to bits. It also has admirable gazelle-type creatures that the Vogons sit on for fun, even admitting that break the backs of the gazelle creatures.…

    • 354 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Unfortunately for merchant interests, enticing pirates to quit their criminal endeavors failed as badly as the military efforts to stop them. Although pardons were successful at bringing pirates into shore, they did not keep them for long. Many shook the hand of the governor, swore his allegiance to the crown, and then shortly returned to preying on vessels at sea. The failure of pardons to slow the proliferation of piracy cannot all be blamed on piratical greed. Pardons were specific to regions and times, and the vague language they contained raised fear of trickery.…

    • 1843 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Today is the day we travel on the trail to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis is the leader of this expedition and William Clark is his companion on the expedition. Thomas Jefferson wanted them to find a trail that leads to the Pacific Ocean. On May 21, 1804 we started our journey. We traveled to the Louisiana territory.…

    • 596 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Thomas Jefferson was, for worse or for better, a man of the peace. Known for his somewhat radical idea that “If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest.” In 1823, President Jefferson condemned “the atrocious violations of the rights of nations, by the interference of any-one in the internal affairs of another.” This was a new concept of thinking for the time. For example, when war with the British seemed inevitable near the end of Jefferson’s tour as secretary of state, he proposed what would today be termed “economic sanctions” as an alternative to military force.…

    • 1405 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Unlike Telemachus, son of Odysseus, Brutus, son of Silvius, was not deprived of his father’s guidance. Notwithstanding the loss of Batea left a hole in Silvius’ life he was proud of his doughty son. Brutus was not only adept in learning the art of hurling spears, archery and swordsmanship, but he was a first-rate sailor as well. He often hunted with his father. Together they searched out game from hare to wild ibex and slew every wretched wolf they encountered.…

    • 1087 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    No one imagined the 16th century to be compelling, so when people started resisting the Pope and challenging the “Spanish rights to the New World and its riches”(76-77) people were shocked. During this time, Spain was looting the New World while being at war with France. The Huguenots, who were French Protestant had no ties with the pope, but with the conflict between Spain and France, the French would create raid acts of warfare. According to Konstam, Angus, The French had no part in the “Treaty of Tordesillas,”which was an agreement between Spain and Portugal to settle conflict over the new discovered land. Since Francis I, “refused to recognize the control the Spanish had over the New World, the french .. sanctioned attacks on Spanish ships.…

    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Federation resulted in many advantages and disadvantages which effected Australia as a nation. Firstly, Source 1 features a women representing Australia surrounded by multiple children, who are depicted as the separate states. Federation brought all the desperate states with their individual regional defense force together - The white, elegant and attractive woman represents a white, united and pure Australia, which was desired by many colonies.…

    • 352 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Saluting on the Quarterdeck Rendering a proper salute on the quarterdeck is a timeless tradition that has stood the test of time. Shortly after joining the Navy, every recruit is taught to salute on the quarterdeck without knowing the history. The salute, the quarterdeck and the relevance of the combination of the two in history and present day and will be discussed. History…

    • 441 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Old Ironside Summary

    • 658 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The poem “Old Ironside” written by Oliver Wendell Holmes is about saving a historical American warship by revealing the ship’s significance in American history during the early 1800s. The warship, named the USS Constitution, was significant because of its remarkable contributions in battle. For this reason, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the poem using metaphors, symbols, and imagery to convey the ship’s importance to the American people, and to prevent its destruction by evoking strong feelings, such as a sense of patriotism and admiration from the readers. In order to emphasize the importance of the ship, Holmes uses metaphors to demonstrate the important characteristics of the ship.…

    • 658 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Book Overview I read the book Teach Like a Pirate by Dave Burgess (2012). This book is not a step-by-step manual that makes us better educators, it simply talks about how we as educators can use creativity and motivation to enhance student engagement, as well as, boost passion and energy within ourselves to create an environment that is warm, inviting, and empowering. The author divides the book into three parts: Part 1, the word “PIRATE” is broken down into six chapters.…

    • 1495 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    John Appleby Pirates

    • 2130 Words
    • 9 Pages

    Authors Main Arguments John Appleby argues that a few women during the 16th and 17th Centuries participated in committing piracy at sea. During that time, piracy was male dominated and any accounts of female participation was small. The author states that it is difficult to find recorded history surrounding females aboard ships because of how unconventional it was for women to take part. He argues that it is not female physical capability that restricts them, but it is instead the environment onboard a ship and folk superstitions that prevented them from wanting to become pirates. To study the relationship between women and piracy, the author examines two of the most well known female pirates in history: Anne Bonny and Mary Read.…

    • 2130 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    The symbolism of the Clipper Ships within Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker is a literary representation of humanity’s need for freedom in order to survive. Over the course of the novel, Nailer’s desire for independence become increasingly evident and the clipper ships epitomize the need for a certain degree of self-governance in one’s life. The importance of freedom is first displayed as Nailer begins to ponder the meaning of his existence. As Nailer enters a period of deep thought, he becomes more focused on a, “Clipper ship as it sliced across the waters, sleek and fast and completely out of reach.” (Bacigalupi 7) For the first time, Nailer is given a glimpse of what has been hidden from him and as a result, he gains a new perspective on life.…

    • 1453 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Great Essays

    Historically, piracy and privateering are often confused and the differentiation between the two is vague. They are very similar since the general concept of their work (raiding and pillaging ships) is the same. It is authorization that forms the distinction between them: privateering was a governmentally authorized affair. The country giving the authorization considered it privateering and the country being raided considered it piracy. Distribution of Letters of Marque to privateering ships was common enough that pirates, the unauthorized sea raiders, could easily function under a facade of legitimacy.…

    • 1696 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The island of Uta-Jima is surrounded by hefty bodies of soothing ocean water. The islanders are the individuals that have the pleasure to view it every day when they wake in the morning, and in the darkness of the night. Those bodies of water bring many privileges to the islanders of Song Island. The oceans allow for the majority of the individuals to be well-off in their lives. This could be proven by taking into account the jobs that the islanders have, the food they consume, the transportation they use, and the faith that they islanders hold on to.…

    • 1475 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays