The US ship captain being held hostage in a lifeboat by pirates off Somalia jumped off the boat early Friday but failed to escape his captors, US networks reported.
Captain Richard Phillips jumped into the water around midnight and tried to swim towards the nearby US destroyer, the USS Bainbridge, but pirates jumped into the water and recaptured him, three television networks reported.
US military officials told CNN that Phillips was fine, and that the pirates did not hurt him.


