'I would have gone down with my yacht.' Pirate sailor victim tells

9:15 PM Tue 16 Nov 2010 GMT

'Peter Eldridge - escaped from Somali pirates hands' .

The South African yacht skipper whose crew were kidnapped by Somali pirates last week was willing to 'go down' with his vessel. In a blow by blow account of the traumatic hijacking off the Tanzanian coast on October 26, Peter Eldridge, 61, yesterday explained that he was prepared to sink his yacht, SY Choizil, if the pirates made it their 'mother ship' to rob other vessels. 'I had made peace that . if they were going to go ahead with their plan to make it their mother ship, I was prepared to sink with my yacht and the pirates,' he ...

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