All in a days work....

If you've payed attention to the news at all lately, you've no doubt heard about the Pirates that took an American cargo ship hostage in a small lifeboat in the middle of the Gulf of Aden. You also may have heard that the first ones on the scene were the US Navy...and Insitu....flying an Insitu built Scan Eagle unmanned aircraft from the Naval Destroyer USS Bainbridge. The scan eagle UAV found the lifeboat and then loitered and provided aerial recon until the ships could arrive and continued to keep live aerial surveillance 24-7 until the situation was resolved.





Here's some of the details from a local news channel....


http://www.kgw.com/video/video-index.html?nvid=351879





Here's a photo of Captain Phillips (center) after he was rescued with the scan eagle team...

Here's a clip from CNN that shows some stills of the scan eagle footage...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnv_FQvsfGg