At the age of 16, Chris Drewitt went to sea, in the Merchant Navy. He went on to become one of the youngest captains of his generation. He came ashore to work for the British National Oil Corporation as Marine Superintendent. He then worked for a Marine and Underwater Consultancy, which took him all over the world, dealing with governments of different hues. In 1992, whilst on a mission for the British Government, he was arrested as a CIA spy in the midst of a coup in Sierra Leone. He was beaten, tortured and imprisoned for several weeks. Having got into the design and building of fast patrol boats, he became very interested in the weapons they carried. This triggered him attaining a Section 5 arms dealers authority, closing multi-million-dollar contracts for land and sea equipment in the southern Persian Gulf area, and for the Israeli armaments industry.
