{"id":138678,"date":"2022-04-26T01:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T06:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-superyacht-captain-deployed-sonic-weapons-and-pain-rays-to-fend-off-pirates-armed-with-kalashnikovs-worker-says"},"modified":"2022-04-26T01:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T06:02:20","slug":"a-superyacht-captain-deployed-sonic-weapons-and-pain-rays-to-fend-off-pirates-armed-with-kalashnikovs-worker-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-superyacht-captain-deployed-sonic-weapons-and-pain-rays-to-fend-off-pirates-armed-with-kalashnikovs-worker-says","title":{"rendered":"A superyacht captain deployed sonic weapons and \u2018pain rays\u2019 to fend off pirates armed with Kalashnikovs, worker says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-superyacht-captain-deployed-sonic-weapons-and-pain-rays-to-fend-off-pirates-armed-with-kalashnikovs-worker-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A superyacht captain used sonic weapons to fend off pirates, an industry insider told The Times of London.<\/p>\n<p>They also deployed \u201cpain rays,\u201d which create a burning sensation on the skin, the worker said.<\/p>\n<p>The captain used the weapons against armed pirates approaching on inflatable boats, the worker added.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The captain deployed the weapons as armed pirates sped towards him on inflatable boats, an industry insider wrote in The Times of London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A superyacht captain used sonic weapons to fend off pirates, an industry insider told The Times of London. They also deployed \u201cpain rays,\u201d which create a burning sensation on the skin, the worker said. The captain used the weapons against armed pirates approaching on inflatable boats, the worker added. The captain deployed the weapons as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}