Hijack and Murder on the High Seas: The Very Strange Case of a Captured Oil Tanker
Everyone thought that the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso ran afoul of pirates in 2011 in the Gulf of Aden. The assumption was that the hijackers attacked the ship and set her ablaze. When David Mockett, a maritime surveyor, inspected the vessel, he was left with more questions than answers. But soon after his inspection, Mockett …