Dutch Special Forces vs. Unprepared Pirates (Marine reacts)

[@QuinieTheGuy]

As a dutch citizen myself i am impressed on how well your pronounced ''Politie!'' 🤣

[@Aspect43216]

same he couldn't pronounce some dutch city names

[@aps2331]

Bro on spot right

[@edwinneijenhuis4123]

Same

[@FinnJansma]

Echt he

[@stijntouw]

Ja vind ik ook wel jammer dat hij geen echt DSI uniform heeft

[@thomaseelvelt907]

The engaging you heard was cover fire from the chopper machinegun a FN MAG. To clear the pirates from the decks so they couldn't shoot the operators while fast roping. (Around 4:00). i appreciate you making the effort speaking Dutch. Not to bad at all! Especially "POLITIE"! was spot on! Thank you for your vids!

[@robinvonken9975]

The “politie” was perfect! It is almost exactly how it sounds like from a dutch officer (not that i have any experience but just how it would sound like)

[@Mart687]

Yes they used a fn mag 7,62mm machine gun from the heli for suppressing fire while fast roping. And I think it's a marsof unit or what they used to call BBE. Hardcore marines. Helicopter is a cougar and there's a frigate next to this cargo vessel. And that is very intimidating. It's not dsi cause dsi have blue nh-90's and do not operate on anti piracy missions. This is navy.

[@royvv8198]

​@@Mart687 this is Unit Interventie Mariniers (UIM) and the helicopter is a lynx. The nh-90 is the replacement for the lynx.

[@xx-ui2gm]

Really nice video! Most of the dutch commentary is describing what's happening in the video so you didn't miss much. The sound you hear in the helicopter is suppressive fire from the machinegun, you can see the windows of the bridge are full of holes when they clear it later in the video, but it doesn't seem like the pirates shot at the boarding team. The wire is a pretty standard anti-piracy measure that merchant vessels can take, other options are using fixed water cannons around the ship to try and flood approaching boats and locking the pirate cages (metal gates) that are meant to slow pirates down and buy time for the crew to get in the saferoom. When they're clearing the crew quarters the narrator mentions that the pirates thrashed the place, kicked in doors, and even shot through some doors they couldn't open. He also mentions that the pirates were armed but had thrown down their weapons. And yes they are as rusty on the inside as the outside, seawater makes things corrode and rust pretty quick. He also says that the merchant vessel's captain got out of the saferoom with his crew, they explained their operation and got applauded.

[@CombatArmsChannel]

Thanks for the info!

[@wyldz6763]

I sadly don't speak Dutch but I have worked with sea freight for a decade and it is nowdays (after these issues especially) quite common practise for the crew to bail inside a "panic room" or seal off a section of the vessel which is unaccessible without heavy duty cutting tools, so any friendlys can basically assume that there are no blues in sight and light up the place. With any luck the captain can make the request for military assistance call in good time and the crew can move to holding positions without being exposed to a hostile party. This might have come up already in other comments so sorry if I'm repeating other things! Edit: there are a lot of things to unpack here but of course the level of information would dictate the approach that the boarding party takes, as you know, so this is why there is the suppressive fire etc. It would be very rare for a ship to be taken totally unguarded. The captain would give a call for support (or whoever is senior on the bridge, they would give their best info) and there is always crew performing visual watch, maybe even double so for visibility in high risk areas.

[@dutchbachelor]

What he says... merchant vessels indeed use c-wire as you call it more difficult for the pirates to board the ship. You see that quite often.

[@MrDriesvanleeuwen]

Here's some explanation about the video (as someone who speaks Dutch): 1:53 - 2:01 Somalia 5th of April 2010: the German merchant ship Taipan is freed from pirates by Hr. Ms. Tromp. The team commander of the boarding team explains the images which where shot by body cam during the action. 2:15 - 2:45 10 pirates are on board, they have commandeered the ship. There are 15 crewmembers who have locked themself safely inside a safe room below deck. 3:00 - 3:45 Giving suppressive fire with the machine gun, to safely allow the team to repel down. 4:05 - 4:12 You can see the Hr. Ms. Tromp in the background. 4:18 - 5:05 Giving suppressive fire again, this time by the units on the ship itself. 5:06 - 5:40 These barbed wires are installed by the crew of the ship (or company/ safety team, whoever is responsible for crew safety), in order to slow down or even prevent pirates from entering the ship. A very common practise for commercial ship passing through those waters. 5:55 - 7:40 the soldier/ marine is trying to detain 6 pirates. They say they hand cuff them and secure them. Later on 2 more came from the stern of the ship, who where also detained. 7:43 - 9:00 The last 2 pirates are detained coming down from the bridge. That's now all 10 pirates accounted for. They then go on to clear the rest of the ship to be sure. 9:52 - 10:45 the living quarters have been thrashed by the pirates, including broken in doors, laptops on the ground, shot through doors. They say its been 4 hours since the pirates boarded the ship. 10:50 - 11:06 The pirates where armed, and dropped all there weapons on the spot. Weapons varied from rpg's, rpg-7's, ak-47's and pistols. 11:08 - 11:30 The German captain decided to open the doors (of the safe room) and came outside with his crew, they were very relieved. They were brought to the port side of the stern and briefed of what took place.

[@ShacolateClown]

3:20 few months late but he said ''he was firing the MAG to give covering fire so the pirates onboard the deck of the Taipan had no chance to fire at us'' and at 4:20 you were right. he was supressing them so they could not shoot the ones still going down the rope

[@cmap1503]

The dutch wasnt too bad

[@robinvonken9975]

Right! It was a lot better then all the other people I heard try

[@bekeneel]

Yea it takes some balls to do this, they were kinda lucky the pirates didn't resist. I think mostly they just pay the pirates and don't even try to get them, not to endanger hostages, but in this case there weren't really hostanges I guess. But like these guys often have RPGs, so I wouldn't feel very safe approaching there with a helicopter lol. Ships going thru these waters should just have some real soldiers on board to protect the ship, like with rifles or other means to prevent pirates of getting close to the ship & boarding it.

[@6105boe]

@@bekeneel that would absolutely help, but having to have armed personnel on every cargo ship would make your new playstation (and literally 90% of everything transported over the oceans) cost 10% more versus a 0.0000001% that your ship gets pirated successfully so it’s not viable economically I guess.

[@Mithr4s]

@@bekeneel The commentator explained that after the intervention, the German captain opened the door and came out with his crew. They must have barricaded himself in.

[@jve89]

Don't lie 😂 I had to watch it 3 times to hear he said 'allemaal' 😂 But trying is gold!

[@dondodo8129]

The “Politie!” was spot on! 🤙🏽

[@worldenjoyer2967]

One of the operators on this unit fell from the fast rope and broke a couple of bones and still completed this mission.

[@Tech_Xeno]

I love how u yelled POLITIE at the begining as a dutch person myself i didnt see that one coming!

[@mavadelo]

Sir, your "POLITIE" was spot on, it doesn't go any better because you nailed it. And Welkom Allemaal, I understood it, was good enough. I would rate your effort a 9 out of 10. Korps Mariniers... the pronunciation of Korps is almost indentical to that of (a) corpse You ended Mariniers fine but the a we use is the a of mama in this case. Not military myself, everything I said is a laymans view..... You understood correctly that there were 10 pirates. He also mentioned that there were 15 crewmembers that locked themselves into a safe room.(save room?) The crewmember will aid those going down out of the chopper. You hear the cover fire. They are not taking fire when they land, all firing done is preventive. No waiting till you are getting engaged, making sure you won't get engaged at all.

[@MrLunarlander]

I'm thinking that concertina wire may have been a defensive measure installed by the shipping company, if they were sailing through an area vulnerable to pirates.

[@thomaseelvelt907]

That's what I thought aswell.

[@CombatArmsChannel]

True, good observation

[@Hannu_H]

@@CombatArmsChannel c wire is used as a defensive measure to hinder pirates from climbing in the ship.

[@Firespark7]

3:27 They're firing the helicopter machine gun to provide cover fire for the forces about to engage. 4:26 They're still not taking fire yet, but providing cover fire.

[@KlapLoper-ot8ew]

You nailed the POLITIE!!! that really sounded Dutch!! Greeting from the Netherlands

[@roelbrook7559]

Doesn't KZbin generate automatic subtitles? Probably not from Dutch. A bit of context: - The fire from the helicopter and just after landing was cover fire. They weren't actually engaging, but suppressing while fast-roping in - There were 6 pirates found on the bottom deck (6:40), they made them climb out of the window - They found a total of 10 pirates, which were aboard for ~4 hours, in which time the pirates ravaged the crew quarters - The ship was German and was freed by a Dutch team as there was a ship close by

[@celsus7979]

To add to other comments. They had intel that there were 10 pirates. They cleared 6 in the first room, 2 on the same deck and 2 from the bridge. The pirates had been on the ship for 4 hours

[@awmperry]

Vessels often rig concertina wire around the gunwales when entering piracy hazard regions; it’s one of the basic anti-boarding measures (that as we see here doesn’t always work), along with things like fire hoses, armed security teams and so on.

[@endless666evil]

It wil not stop the Pirates, but wil give the crew extra time to send out an distress signal and retreat into a safe room

[@awmperry]

It doesn't need to conclusively stop them (though armed security certainly will) - the main aim is to make the vessel a harder target and affect the pirates' target selection. After all, why attack a ship with thousands of people aboard, a high freeboard, concertina on the gunwales and an LRAD on the bridge wings when one can aim for a less defended rather instead? Piracy is a business, and they do the cost-benefit calculations like anyone else.

[@marcusfranconium3392]

Dutch marines ,and dutch navy boarding teams do this on regular basis usualy a few times a week in the caribean . with the counter drugs and other dubious transfers. There is a video where american marines are trained by dutch marines and navy personel to do these kinds of boardings . Quite a fun video.

[@subdefy4518]

Only the coast guard in the Caribbean but aight

[@dono3678]

⁠@@freelife-productions5745 they do get trained by the Bundeswehr (German Army)too

[@Mokum89]

je was toch zelf marinier en nu in ene traint je vader Amerikanen stolen valor noemen ze dat in Amerika 😅

[@bart_grasmat889]

The wires on the ship are quite commonly used to try and stop pirates from boarding the ship, although it did not seem to have worked.

[@larstuinier6069]

to be honest the "politie" scream in the beginning was quite good! keep up the good work!

[@ScandzaVaeringjar]

The wire is put there by the shipping company to somewhat prevent easy boarding.

[@CarLos-yi7ne]

@5:12 the barbed wire is to prevent pirates to climb aboard. Many ships use that in that area. Maybe they should have added some more in this case. 😁

[@RaymondvanGelderen]

That intro was fire! Very Dutch Love the clone helmet.

[@slomp2313]

i understand dutch and you at 3:40 telling that getting fired at isnt fun while deploying, but (in dutch) they just explained that they are shooting covering fire, and at like 10:05 they say that at the deck where the crew was hididng there was stuf with bulletholes in them so the pirates did have guns wich he confirmes at 10:47

[@bert2526]

The barbed wire is probably part of the vessel, to protect somewhat against boarding pirates.

[@zeldamage001]

1:26 "het korps mariniers" is literally, as the name suggests, the Dutch marine corps. Maybe they have an intervention unit, idk

[@heyimtijmen4066]

Me as a dutch man is proud that a marine is reacting to this. You said like in the beginning if they where taking fire but they said they where doing cover fire so they couldnt get a chance of getting fired uppon. Dont know if you heard that yet so but here is a explenation.

[@grahambamford9073]

When I saw the RPGs that's why the covering fire at the start, could easily of taken out the chopper with one of those. Pretty intense going room to room never knowing what your going to meet around the next corner.

[@noahsskit6276]

Omg. I am so glad there are people that have the balls to do this kind of work. I would propably just get paralyzed and screw everything up if I had to. I hope you all get good training and have good employers.

[@whoopha1279]

if you dont try you dont know (roping part and without paralyzed ) ;-). but see it like this: america has SRT (speacial response teams) we have intervention teams but there job subscribtion is somewhere the same ;)

[@dutch1665]

As a dutch i can say that you can speak dutch pretty good

[@An0niem4]

To translate the ending of the video for you : The Geman captain came out with his crew, they were very relieved. We got them together on the port side at the rear of the ship. There, we told them what happened, how we boarded... We got a little applause, they were awfully glad to see us.

[@werner-de-jong]

It was a nice surprise to open the video with a dutch phrase. Well spoken with the proper intent :D

[@DisdainusMaximus]

INSTANT DSI vibes in the intro, good job. The "POLITIE!" was also spot on.

[@pauloost59]

You got me wit the "politie!" Intro!... I thought it was a Dutch guy introducing the video to you

[@bartgroothengel7594]

I like the funny intro.I;m Dutch btw.I heard POLITIE which is quite correct. You do have nice topics!

[@jdj8168]

your POLITIE was so spot on😂😂

[@fightingelements4338]

This was one of those videos that made me inlist for the 'Dutch Korps Mariniers'. made it all wat through the ; examination physical, mental and the MAST (3days bootcamp) to getting rejected on the last exemination (medical) because of hypermobile feet/ankles.. Sometimes i still regret to never making it but still enjoy the footage, great stuff! 💪

[@liaratsoni9768]

Hypermobile feet is what makes you go too fast right.

[@thijs5931]

Pff zuur man. Weet je toevallig of ze ook naar andere hypermobiele gewrichten kijken?

[@hjvdd]

a really good video, love your intro btw XD

[@Maedhros0Bajar]

At 3:20, he was saying that they were giving supressing fire to keep the pirates from shooting at the men about to drop down on the ship I suspect the barbed wire had been placed there by the crew before entering the area in the first place, in an attempt to prevent pirates boarding

[@SirMrDany]

Look into the 1976 Train Hijacking at a village called "de Punt".

[@sandernieuwenhuizen626]

The pirates were transported to Dutch prisons where they were waitning for their extradition to Germany where they were sentenced from 2 to 7 years. I knew 5 of the pirates, a few of them where around 18 years young and still looked like kids ... but with lethal weapons unfortunatly.

[@hansisbrucker813]

How did you get to know them?😮

[@sandernieuwenhuizen626]

@@hansisbrucker813 i used to work in prison as prisonguard

[@hansisbrucker813]

@sandernieuwenhuizen626 ah I see

[@Jeroenhermanjan]

3:30 they say we give suppressive fire because they won’t get the change firing back when the guys go down.

[@baasmans]

There’s plenty of Dutchies watching your videos. I’m sure you could ask any of us to translate. The voiceover is answering all your questions before you ask them haha

[@8alakai8]

at 4:29 they are saying they are just giving cover fire for the team the decent from the heli

[@BDMRProductions-rw5qm]

As a Dutch person myself im pretty impressed by everything you said in Dutch

[@geertdelange4785]

There are also real time action videos from the Dutch forces in the Afghanistan period, specially in witch they were ambussed, by the Taliban, are famous videos. Mostly Dutch special forces from the army, Air Brigade and The Dutch Marines, were involved and probably also action videos with the P2000 artillery, als in Afghanistan I guess it was in the early years 2000 /2006.

[@peervangeldrop9160]

Honestly impressed by your Dutch

[@010Jordi]

They were allowed to use suppressing fire like that because they knew the crew was in a safe room so anyone on the bridge was a pirate

[@randomhistoryfan7803]

I would translate bits but I suppose action speaks for itself!

[@DutchTunisian]

Ik ben ook Gronings 💪

[@randomhistoryfan7803]

@@DutchTunisian Specerijen moment

[@DutchTunisian]

@@randomhistoryfan7803 ja hehe

[@bert2526]

@@DutchTunisian Moi!

[@DutchTunisian]

@@bert2526 moi eem mi jong

[@RensDV]

There were 10 pirates and 15 hostages in a save room. 6 pirates were arrested fairly peacefully through the broken window

[@ridderrowan3987]

100% you had some kind of dutch lessons or some dutch learning stuff cause you understand a lot

[@Ticklestein]

1:25 - Korps sounds literally the same as an English speaker that says “corpse”. You were close enough on het and mariniers.

[@chess629]

The dutch marines basiclly are engageing 15 pirates with supresing fire from the 7.62 mag.

[@RaymondvanGelderen]

That start Politie! Really accurate 😂

[@pascopirate]

Definitely have to cover that door on the bridge. It usually leads to the Captain's quarters. Pirates know that the Captain's safe stores all cash and medical drugs for the ship.

[@commandbrawler9348]

liveth for evermore has a video similar to this aswell, i watched it several times and he explains this situation very well

[@bedtimestories4927]

Yeah so the crew was safe in the citadelle (safe room in the engine room) so the heli gunner just went all out covering the guys fast roping. You’ll see the peppered portholes and structure later on.

[@ikoster]

I am not sure which one, but one of the operators was wounded wile fast roping. Because of the slack in the rope and the heavy backpak he fell down 8 meters. The rope was fixed outside the heli. According to one of the operators the unit never trained this kind of fast rope.

[@ricokaljouw1905]

Remember it like yesterday, was MAG gunner at the stern, supporting the marines with fire on the bridge .

[@Donuts_random_stuff]

3:39 the guy said the shooting is then giving cover fire so they can go safely down

[@8alakai8]

at 3:25 he says they where shooting with the mag for cover

[@CarLos-yi7ne]

@3:24 supressive fire with FN MAG machine gun.

[@bavokegels8929]

not taking fire until : just covering, 7 : 14 there were 6 pirates on the under deck, and they did not cooperate immidiatly, but were unnarmed, 11:35 the german captain decided to come out with he's intire team, and they trew the squad a small party. not litterly...

[@Some_Dutch_guy]

I love the intro nice work

[@blastaq4267]

09:20 the reason why it looks like there so experienced is because they are. This was a MARSOF team (Special forces of the netherlands besides KCT) u can compare them to navy seals. You need to be an marine for 4 years before you can even sign urself up.

[@AageV]

If I remember correctly, one of the guys in this operation actually fell from the fast rope. He actually fell a long way and finished the whole operation with a heavy concussion.

[@stevenwebb3634]

The start of the video alone is worth a thumbs up

[@jorgschrauwen]

in the beginning of the video the audio was shotty because they were laying down cover fire with the machine gun so they could safely board and when the people landed on the boat they began laying down cover fire for the other people to get down safely

[@TobyBarrows]

You should have a look at Simple History's Battle of Mirbat (9 SAS Soldiers VS 300 Adoo Guerrillas). It's one of the most important battles in the SAS's history. And Labalaba should have recieved the the Victoria Cross

[@Yduar-lo8bk]

Nice intro, love it 😂

[@hmcredfed1836]

10:57 arent those from the 2nd World War?

[@BJH-zg2kf]

How you said ’politie’, i kinda thought i pressed the wrong video of a real Dutch police member 😂

[@robg1151]

Great intro and I would love to see more but don’t try too hard lol You have no idea which of your vids will go viral and score big, just keep making them and take everything as it comes. You will always have a core audience, keep the vids coming bro.

[@HCShuffle]

@3:10 he says they are giving supression fire with the mach

[@ronaldbunk9007]

I'm Dutch, at the start they are laying down suppressing fire. They weren't under fire. Just them making sure the pirates crapped their pants.

[@tweebaco]

I don't know..? But did you enter the room in full armor and real gun? As a dutchie that is too crazy!

[@___fokker___974]

Should`ve thrown m overboard instead of detaining them. Bye bye tax-money.

[@duncandl910]

excellent choice of outtro music

[@skydive1424]

I'm Dutch and maybe a little translation; they weren't taking fire when they boarded but the were providing fire cover, basically spraying and praying.

[@ziyuansim5090]

0:20 WHAT THE HELL MAN I HAD MY HANDS UP!

[@maxberre]

To answer this guy's question about contact in minute 3, they say that they are doing suppressing fire so that nobody is on deck.

[@bullie86]

Pronunciation of politie was spot on.

[@bedtimestories4927]

You almost went more South African haha. Good effort😉

[@CombatArmsChannel]

😅👍

[@kl1970]

South African (Afrikaans) is a dutch dialect btw

[@jasperkok8745]

@@kl1970 No it’s not. Afrikaans is a separate language. It’s still closely related to Dutch, as it developed in South Africa after the Dutch set foot in the Cape colony in 1652, but unlike dialects, there is an official standard language, just like in Dutch (where it used to be called ABN).

[@Indy_rawr]

Dutch guy here, respect for trying to speak dutch a bit, its not an easy language if you did not grow up around it

[@bart_grasmat889]

You almost said ''Politie'' perfectly!

[@milsimpmidget]

That intro 😂

[@SunAlucard]

the onboard gunner was giving cover fire to stop the pirates from engaging the ones who are dropping in

[@Edwinvangent]

helicotor fired covering fire or surpressing fire translating when you hear "dekkingsvuur'

[@herrflick9155]

"Dutch sounds like a drunk English person"???? The soldiers were screaming in English.... 😆

[@simonabgrall8305]

I guess the barbwires were installed to slow down pirates boarding. We had the same on Shelf Drilling oil rig "Baltic" offshore Nigeria. It was supposed to give enough time to the crew to rush to the safe zone and lock the doors

[@PeetHobby]

Great video, like always. Greeting from The Netherlands Edit: 3:10 The Dutch commentator explains that they are suppressing the enemy, thereby forcing them to remain in cover and discouraging any attempts to shoot at the helicopter. 5:08 That was the boat that the pirates used to come on board. The barbed wire is in place to make it more difficult for the pirates to board the ship.

[@theseabee1173]

your dutch in the beginning you did very well man!

[@MuckRatz]

The barbed wires are anti pirate measures. Ships also mount up fire hoses, and tow lines on beams. They dont realy repel pirates by themselves, but it makes it harder to board.

[@leemuz73]

That was great, I think the seals and sbs would do it slightly different nowadays but wow cool vid

[@Mieloesj]

The intro was so good everyone else was very bad at least what I heard😊

[@TheSokwe]

thats genious man. "Dutch sounds a bit like drunk English"

[@worfoz]

Also, in the Netherlands, we do not have an expression like "Dutch courage".

[@roykliffen9674]

The Marines were calling their orders to the pirates in English..... sort of. [edit] I'm a bit curious; Have you ever been engaged in exercises with combined forces of other countries and as such did you ever work with the Royal Dutch Marines? I know they often are seconded to the British Royal Marines and that cooperation seems to be working fine.

[@johannesberkhoff3263]

Are a special force like nlmarsof dsi are marines,commando's and police

[@redouanalkamouchi4806]

Machinegun man in helicopter was pushing full out cover fire against the pirates on top of the deck while the special forces where going down on the fast rope.

[@aichohvee]

I loved the intro 😆

[@ceofficial936]

First time I heard "Dutch sounds like drunk English" phahaha