Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
you mean a full assault, with soldiers fast-roping down in groups of six from two separate helicopters, with automatic weapons and authorisation to use them, at the same time as flash-bangs and tear gas are fired onto the deck from accompanying corvettes?
Yes, why do it like that, when there are proven ways of going about such businesses that is way which will limit the risk to everyone involved.

The Norwegian coast guard does this all the time against Russian fishing ships; you think drunk russian fishermen are happy that some foreigners are about to take their livelyhood away from them? And yet, this goes on all the time, without incident. Because the coast guard follows proper procedure.