Shipping Security in the Strait of Hormuz
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
James and Gare talk about the world of private maritime security, pirates, and the strait of Hormuz.
Sources:
https://www.register-iri.com/wp-content/uploads/MN-2-011-39.pdf
https://en.mercopress.com/2009/04/26/cruise-ship-melody-fended-off-a-pirate-attack
https://abcnews.com/Business/International/pirates-attack-us-flagged-maersk-alabama/story?id=9114429
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Call Zone Media. |
| 0:10.6 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to It Could Happen here. |
| 0:14.4 | It's me, James, today, and I am very lucky to join by Garrison. |
| 0:18.2 | Hi, Gerriss. |
| 0:19.1 | Hello. |
| 0:19.9 | Hi. |
| 0:23.9 | Garrison, I've summoned you here today to talk about boats, |
| 0:28.6 | a topic that white men love, but we're not going to talk about like going out on the lake. |
| 0:34.9 | And looking for bass today, I've only done bass fishing once. It's not for me. Do you hold up the fish for the picture? Do you do the picture? I wasn't blessed with a bass on that trip. But I did get to, it was very interesting because a guy had like a purple boat with gold flex in it. It didn't represent who I thought he was as a person. It turned out actually he had a boat sponsorship and he was going to sell it. But it was a cool boat. I got to drive that boat pretty fast, do some donuts and stuff. |
| 0:55.8 | So that's another thing that calls to a part of my soul. |
| 1:00.1 | I want to talk about private maritime security today. |
| 1:03.6 | The reason why, of course, is that Iran is currently attacking boats in the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 1:10.5 | And elsewhere, right there's some boats were attacked in port in Basra. |
| 1:15.3 | Yesterday, we're recording this on Thursday. |
| 1:17.7 | At the time of recording, they have attacked six boats. |
| 1:21.3 | It's more likely than not that there will be more boats attacked by the time you |
| 1:25.6 | are listening to this. |
| 1:26.9 | It's been a really bad week for |
| 1:28.3 | boat guys. It's been a bad year for boats in general. Oh, Venezuela. Yeah, yeah. Let's talk about |
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