I worked with this wacko bipolar captain on a small anchor boat who was attacked by the CE 2-3 months before I started working with him. The assault was never reported because as soon as he threw a few punches on the captain he fell down with a heart attack & had to be taken ashore in an ambulance. This nutcase captain would use the ships intercom 24 hours a day to call people to the bridge over the stupidest stuff. Everyone hated him.
But about Africa, he said when he worked in Nigeria for Trico Marine he had a falling out with the crew. They jumped him & beat him so bad he had to be put in the hospital. He bragged about the story & said he really only needed 2 or 3 days in the hospital but dragged it out for over a week. Me being sceptical of sea stories I asked around to people who worked at Trico when it was around & sure enough it was true. The same with my predecessors assault & heart attack a few months earlier. That notorious captain had a few more stories of getting his ass kicked or kicking others but I couldn’t verify them so won’t repeat them.