(12 Apr 2009)
1. Wide of Maersk Alabama
2. Ship's name on stern (Maersk Alabama - Norfolk, Virginia) with crew raising US flag on jack staff
3. Close up, crewmen with US flag
4. Mid of unidentified crew members, UPSOUND: (English) "We have a lot of meetings to take care of this morning. We'll talk to you all later."
Second crew member: "(We've had) no sleep in four days."
(Qu: "Have you talked to your family?")
Second crew member: "Yes - last night, it felt good."
5. Pan down from vessel to water
6. Various of crew
7. Mid of flags
STORYLINE:
Negotiations continued on Sunday for the freedom of Captain Richard Phillips, the American ship captain of the Maersk Alabama, captured by Somali pirates off the East Africa coast.
On Saturday, the nineteen American sailors who escaped the pirate hijacking reached safe harbour, arriving to the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
With a throng of reporters shouting questions from shore, the crew described an ordeal that began with Somali pirates hauling themselves
onto the deck from a small boat bobbing on the surface of the Indian Ocean far below.
Phillips was taken hostage after surrendering himself to the pirates to safeguard his men, crew members said.
The 53 year-old captain is being held in an enclosed lifeboat by four pirates being closely watched by US warships in an increasingly tense standoff.
The U.S. Navy has assumed that the pirates in the lifeboat would try to get it to shore, even though the vessel apparently has no fuel and is drifting.
A Pentagon spokesman said negotiations were ongoing.
Phillips' crew were still on board the freighter on Sunday, moored at the quayside in Mombasa, whilst the FBI investigates the attack.
The shipping line said on Saturday it was not clear when they would be allowed home.
In a separate incident, other bandits, among the hundreds who have made the Gulf of Aden the world's most dangerous waterway, seized an
Italian tugboat off Somalia's north coast on Saturday as it was pulling barges, a spokeswoman at NATO's Northwood maritime command centre outside London said.
A piracy expert said the two hijackings did not appear related.
Somali pirates are holding about a dozen ships with more than 200 crew members, according to the Malaysia-based International Maritime Bureau, a piracy watchdog group.
The bureau lists 66 attacks since January, not including the Alabama or the Italian ship seized on Saturday.

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