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- Estimated premiere date: September 2009
- Network: Spike
- Production studio: 44 Blue Productions
- Scenes taped aboard the USS Boxer and the USS San AntonioEW.com: Navy 'Pirate Hunters' docu-series greenlit by Spike TV (April 13, 2009)
- Filming location: Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Africa
- Ships will depart from Djibouti, bordering Somalia and EthiopiaSpike: Spike Goes Pirate Hunting With US Navy (April 13, 2009)
- Ships will patrol an 1.1 million square milesSpike: Spike Goes Pirate Hunting With US Navy (April 13, 2009)
- Executive producers: Rasha Drachkovitch, Adam Friedman
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Pirate Hunters: USN is a reality series covering the actions of the U.S. Navy in their real-life quest to rid the oceans from pirate activity. The Navy has promised a viewers a "front-row seat" to the action currently taking place in the Gulf of Aden, located off the coast of Africa. The show will also focus on the life of seamen aboard ship and could possibly be used as a recruiting tool for the armed forces.msnbc: New Show Will Follow Navy's Pirate Hunters (April 13, 2009)
Mission
With 'Pirate Hunters: USN,'’ our goal is to capture that drama for the TV audience in order to highlight the heroic work undertaken by the US Navy every day in this fight against terrorism.Spike: Spike Goes Pirate Hunting With US Navy (April 13, 2009)Timing
The announcement of Pirate Hunters: USN came just one day after Captain Richard Phillips escaped from his pirate captors. Captain Richard Phillips was taken hostage when Somali pirates took control of the U.S. cargo ship Maersk Alabama, on April 8, 2009. Phillips was held on the Maersk's 28-foot lifeboat during a four-day standoff between the pirates and U.S. Navy forces before he was rescued uninjured on April 12, 2009.CNN: American Captain Rescued... (April 12, 2009)About this page
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