Intuitively one might expect the attackers to weave. A steady course when being engaged from a moving target is no more likely to be hit. At the end, when the rib is astern and being engaged it can be seen to break away to port.
The guys in the rib are not wearing any dayglo safety vests. There is a dayglo object portside aft; can't make it out but it appears both outboard of the cockpit and too large for an individual in a life jacket.
My comment about the ship manouevre was not a suggestion that the ship should have made such a manoeuvre but a question as to whether it could have made such a manouevre.
Last edited by Pontius Navigator; 6th Apr 2012 at 17:28.