Modern Day Piracy

We imagine that Pirates and Piracy was something that happened in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Piracy is alive and well and is happening right now!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7358764.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7721445.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7623329.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7650415.stm

-TT

might i suggest a book, titled
The Pirate's Daughter by Robert Girardi

modern-day pirates/romance-of-sort/the fallout therefrom

i bow out now

jude

Modern Piracy Update:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7736885.stm

- TT

Didn't the navy just blow up the pirates off Somalia who nabbed that oil tanker?

*goes off to find links*

Edited: *looks at TT's link.....* yup that

Ok new stuff this time.....well followup stuff - NPR had a piracy article on this am http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97187437
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97241718

two articles rather :)

Hi Tortoise,

I agree that piracy is alive and well. I actually see this more as an act of war, but if piracy gets the headlines. I read sailing magazines where they post three or four scary pirate stories every year. I worry most about commercial carriers, they will run right through and not stop. Ever read The Life of Pi ?

Most pirates I read about are today known as drug runners, mules, and other such titles, but if some DNA maps were drawn up I bet they would lead back to the scurge of the seas. And they are deadly, I only know of one story where the victims lived to talk about the meeting.

> 6 YA. No I haven't read The Life of Pi. Is Pi short for Pirate?

- TT

Is anyone watching Whale Wars on Animal Planet? I love that show!
The Sea Shepherds refer to themselves as Eco-Pirates.
http://www.seashepherd.org/

No, Pi is not short for pirate. Although the book plays a sea I don't remember any pirates in it, but it's a long time ago I read the book.

For the Dutch speaking among us, I saw this part in an current affairs program:
http://eenvandaag.nl/index.php?module=PX_Story&func=view&cid=2&sid=3...