We had written earlier that the MT Orkim Harmony, the oil tanker carrying 22 crewmembers and 7.5 million litres of RON95 petrol that disappeared off the Johor coast a week ago, had been found plying the waters off the coast of Cambodia. We also reported that it had been repainted and renamed by the pirates who hijacked it, in order to avoid detection.
We didn’t, however, report that those pirates are blooming idiots.
The Royal Malaysian Navy has just released airborne surveillance photos of the commandeered vessel, and man. The ship is not camouflaged very well.
Apart from negligible repainting to its livery, the ship has gone from being named the Orkim Harmony … to just the Kim Harmon.
The KIM HARMON. Oh God they just painted over three letters.
These guys deserve to be caught, and hopefully laughed at derisively in court.
Still, the situation isn’t all guffaws and snorts, of course. These are still non-Sparrow pirates we’re talking about here.
Navy Chief Admiral Abdul Aziz Jaafar warned that the Orkim Harmony/Kim Harmon/whatever is being held by eight hjackers, who are armed with pistols and parangs.
He told The Star Online that his officers on board the KD Terengganu are in a “negotiation process” with the pirates to secure their surrender and the return of the ship and its crew.
Image via The Star Online
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