Fla. SEAL museum wants relics of pirate standoff

FORT PIERCE, Fla. - A Florida military museum wants to acquire objects from Sunday's rescue of an American hostage by Navy SEAL snipers.

The director of the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce said it would be a shame to not collect items from the operation.

Michael Howard says the museum has talked about trying to get the lifeboat that Capt. Richard Phillips was held hostage in for five days, but called that a stretch.

The standoff ended late Sunday when U.S. Navy snipers fired from a warship and killed three Somalian pirates aboard the lifeboat, which was pitching in the open sea at nightfall.

The museum on Florida's Atlantic coast is near where the Navy first started training the World War II underwater demolition experts who were predecessors to the SEALs.

Information from: The Palm Beach Post, http://www.pbpost.com

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