Hostile Seas gives a human face to extraordinary events going on very far from the safe haven of a Canadian reader’s home. The reader learns how deployment affects romantic and familial relationships, the challenges of living on board a ship, and the intense relief of a few hours ashore – a particularly poignant example is the joy Savidge feels simply walking on solid ground from one vessel to another. Savidge’s strength is her ability to convey life on a military vessel in clear, concise prose, allowing a reader unfamiliar with the subject matter to engage completely. This admirable style falls flat only when the author employs dialogue, which often feels stilted. This part of the narrative resists sentimentality or nostalgia, adhering instead to strict factual retelling.
If this aspect of the book sometimes feels strained, its purpose is nonetheless noble.Įlsewhere, Hostile Seas details Savidge’s deep ambivalence about her military work, her struggles being a woman in a male-dominated field, and her quest for personal fulfillment. Hop on that boat and sail through the Caribbean world that houses these perilous pirates. To elucidate the crippling poverty and threats of violence in present-day Somalia, she creates the character of Abdi, and imagines a fictional account of what could drive a young man like him to piracy. Pirate Waters 12oz Soy Candle Etsy Yo Ho Yo Ho. The burning sensation and the nasty stink forces pirates to jump into the water, thus stopping a possible pirate attack. She believes these men are not evil, but desperate. An anti-piracy technology by the International Maritime Security Network of US involves showering approaching pirates with slick, foul-smelling green liquid, which stinks and burns. Savidge is sympathetic and compassionate to the cause of the Somali pirates, even though it’s her job to combat them. It would be the first Canadian ship to perform this task. Instead, Savidge and her crew mates were reassigned to escort United Nations World Food Programme ships through the Gulf of Aden, where Somali piracy had begun to explode in force and frequency.
However, a call from Ottawa drastically changed the Ville de Québec’s mission, expected to be a relatively pleasant one with European ports of call and many chances to reconnect with friends and family. In 2008, JL Savidge was a 33-year-old intelligence officer aboard the HMCS Ville de Québec, patrolling the Mediterranean on a NATO counter-terrorism mission.
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