Two former Navy SEALs working as security contractors aboard
the Maersk Alabama were found dead Tuesday aboard the container ship, a day
after it was docked near an island northeast of Madagascar, according to the
Trident Group, the security firm that employed the men.
The company said families of the two contractors have been
notified and requested that their names not be released.
A spokesman from the shipping line only confirmed that two
people had been found dead, citing the ongoing investigation.
The Maersk Alabama was featured in the movie 'Captain
Phillips,' which was based on a pirate hijacking off the coast of Somalia in
2009. Phillips' ordeal galvanized the attention of the U.S. public to the
dangers of operating merchant ships in the Horn of Africa, one of the busiest
and most precarious sea lanes in the world.
To be sure, only seven months after the Phillips' saga,
Somali pirates attacked the ship again but were repelled by gunfire and a
high-decibel noise device on the container ship.
The Trident Group was established in April 2000 by U.S. Navy
Special Operations Personnel, according to its website.
The Maersk Alabama had been docked in Victoria, Seychelles,
which is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
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