"When the shooting started, I heard a noise, and I got sprayed with debris in my face, and I just dove down into my seat," Phillips said. The Maersk Alabama's captain had been rescued. What ...

Back in April 2009, Richard Phillips was the captain of the Merchant Vessel Maersk Alabama when it was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The ship was boarded by four machine-gun ...

Phillips "took every precaution," he said, and always kept the crew posted and informed. The captain asked engineers ... He said one time the Maersk Alabama was 250 nautical miles from shore ...

MANAMA, Bahrain (CNN)-- U.S. Navy snipers fatally shot three pirates holding an American cargo-ship captain hostage after seeing that one of the pirates "had an AK-47 leveled at the captain's back ...

Today, the suspenseful piracy story off the Somali Coast: the hijacking of the cargo ship the Maersk Alabama and the kidnapping of its captain, Richard Phillips. (SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "CAPTAIN ...

Maersk Capt. Richard Phillips praises U.S. Navy, says "I'm not the hero." April 17, 2009 — -- The U.S. captain of the Maersk Alabama, who was rescued from the hands of Somali pirates Easter ...

In the ending of Captain Phillips, Captain Phillips and his crew survived the hijacking by the Somali pirates, thanks to his leadership and the crew's resourcefulness. The U.S. Navy intervened ...

Hero Alabama Captain Richard Phillips testified ... ships -- was met with mixed reviews. The chief of Phillips' own company, Maersk, said it could potentially harm, not help, the ships to have ...

Phillips, former captain of the MV Maersk Alabama, will speak Tuesday, May 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Bronner Performing Arts Center. The event, “An Evening with Captain Phillips,” is hosted ...