Crew Saved Croatian Tanker, Not French

The captain of the ship says that the crew used water canons to hit the armed Somali pirates, and the French caught them weakened.

“They are armed and we are not, that is the problem, they can do what they want. If we had guns like in war, that would be a different thing” said Toni Dunatov, the captain of the Zadar tanker “Donat” that managed to defend themselves from a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden, writes Dnevnik.hr.

As the captain says, the reports that the French intervention save him and his crew, and his ship, are totally false. The captain says that the seafarers managed to resist the attack themselves.

“We prepared ourselves in the way that we could. We used the fire-fighting water canons to spray the sides to somewhat bother them. What the French are bragging for saving us is far from the truth” said the brave captain.

After the ship had already been defended from the attack, the French arrested the pirates that attacked the tanker in small boats.