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My Moment of Fear: Episode 1: Joe Westland

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Episode 1: Joe Westland

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Joe Westland tells Neil MacKay about being captured by pirates off the coast of Nigeria.

Joe Westland tells Neil MacKay about being captured by pirates off the coast of Nigeria and how he survived being held hostage for ransom.

It's a story of pirates, hostage and ransom in an exotic location. It sounds like the stuff of fiction, a best-selling thriller, but fiction became reality for life long sailor Joe Westland. Spending his whole life at sea, from a young boy on a fishing boat to a 64 year-old Captain of a cargo vessel, Joe Westland has been through it all. But he was unaware that his defining moment of fear, the biggest threat of his life, would come from other sea-farers - pirates. In this episode Joe talks to Neil MacKay about his horrific capture by pirates off the coast of Nigeria and how he survived being held hostage for ransom.
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