Engineering360: "Non-lethal weapon quickly immobilizes suspicious boats"

I am confused. It is "intended for tankers that are vulnerable to piracy" but it is for "Vessels weighing as much as three tonnes". I don't think most tankers qualify but if used before boarding it might work.

Ummmm . . . many go-fast boats use jet drives.

Low-tech counter-measures for high-tech arresting systems.

This tool below is still the best thing out there. Relatively inexpensive and is capable of reaching out and touching them at comfortable distances.

In the right hands, it will immobilize an outboard motor rather effectively sparing the lives of the occupants and for what reason I don't know.

I fully understand the need to stop piracy. Adding another netting material or any other floating device that will be left behind and never recovered is not the answer. It will eventually cause issues to marine life, or even drift to areas that swimmers or regular legal boaters will have issues. Besides, for every deterrent, they will find a way around it. I don't want to be the guy, on my personal boat, stuck out in the ocean with his family due to a net wrapped around my propeller or the guy who finds a dead whale washed up on a beach that is wrapped up in a net. The bullet idea works for me!