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Monday, March 29, 2010


Arrrrrr!
The EU Naval Force says pirates have hijacked a cargo vessel off the coast of Yemen.

Spokesman Cmdr. John Harbour says the Monday attack took place 10 miles (15 kilometers) from Yemen against the Panama-flagged Iceberg I.

Harbour says the pirates then sailed the ship across the Gulf of Aden toward Somalia.
Pirates, stealing boats in 2010. Note to the captain of any ship sailing in the Gulf of Aden. Buy a gun. But this part cracked me up:
Pirate attacks have continued to climb despite the presence of three dozen warships off the Somali coast. The area of ocean where ships are vulnerable to pirate attack is too vast to effectively patrol.
I have no idea why this area is so prone to piracy, but I don't think this particular part of this particular ocean is any more vast than the other two thirds of the earth's surface that's covered by ocean. But it's a well known fact that pirates can't stand that "cozy" ocean.

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