Here's hoping that this guy is right:

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“There is no way the Bainbridge is going to allow that lifeboat to go anywhere,” said Rear Admiral Richard Gurnon president of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in the Cape Cod town of Bourne. “The pirates are going to quickly realize they have two options: Surrender Phillips, maybe you get in jail for two years, or harm Phillips and face instant death.”
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