Witnessing their leader get dragged into the ocean and seeing the massive Coast Guard vessel sweeping into view, the remaining two pirates panicked. They slammed their skiff into full throttle, abandoning their boss and fleeing into the open sea. Minutes later, strong naval officers pulled a freezing, exhausted Leo safely out of the water, quickly cutting his tight ropes before fishing the spluttering pirate leader out right behind him.
Once safe on the warm deck, the commanding officer explained how they had managed to find them. Maya’s desperate emergency radio call had indeed been heavily distorted by the pirates’ signal jammer, but the high-tech sensors on the Coast Guard patrol fleet had instantly flagged that sudden, localized wall of artificial static. Recognizing the signature electronic interference of a known modern pirate group, the authorities had aggressively mapped their last known coordinates and raced against the clock to the location. They knew the friends had accidentally drifted straight into a dangerous hot zone, and they arrived just in time to prevent a tragedy.