From Mr Tom Russell.

Sir, I have sailed in a very small yacht off the Horn of Africa and I have worked in the shipping industry and aboard a cargo ship. As everyone has already pointed out, 450 nautical miles (830km) south-east of the coast of Kenya is a long way out into the Indian Ocean. It is too far to make a return journey in the type of fast outboard-driven boats that these pirates use. You would run out of fuel.