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Somali pirates now protecting illegal fishing ships, says UN report | Fox News - 1 views

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  • The security services for fishermen bring piracy full circle. Somali pirate attacks were originally a defensive response to illegal fishing and toxic waste dumping off Somalia's cost. Attacks later evolved into a clan-based, ransom-driven business.
  • Jon Van Hoozer on 30 Apr 14
     
    Frustrated by a string of failed hijacking attempts, Somali pirates have turned to a new business model: providing "security" for ships illegally plundering Somalia's fish stocks - the same scourge that launched the Horn of Africa's piracy era eight years ago.
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A Brief History of Piracy | Online Information Bank | Research Collections | Royal Nava... - 1 views

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  • Many pirates had served in merchant or naval ships prior to turning to piracy. Life on a pirate ship appeared more attractive as they were independent of national laws, the crew were treated much better than normal sailors and prize money was shared out equally.
  • Jon Van Hoozer on 30 Apr 14
     
    you are here > Research > Information Bank > Information Sheets#80 A BRIEF HISTORY OF PIRACY Pirates are sea robbers who prey on other ships and rob them of their goods and sometimes capture the ship itself for their own purposes.
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U.S. Navy: No Somali Pirate Attacks in 2013 | TIME.com - 1 views

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  • “With fewer attacks off Somalia, attention has moved to the Gulf of Guinea,” the IMB said in a report in October
  • Can we replicate 2013? Yeah. But we have to be careful,” he says. “We have to do a smart handoff.”
  • Jon Van Hoozer on 30 Apr 14
     
    When five armed men in a small motorboat approached an oil tanker sailing off the coast of Somalia on Dec. 9, the crew sprang into action. They increased speed and unleashed fire hoses off the side to evade the assailants, according to a report from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB).
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8 Real-Life Pirates Who Roved the High Seas - History in the Headlines - 1 views

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  • Queen Anne’s Revenge, and refitted it with 40 guns. With that extra firepower he then blockaded the port of Charleston, South Carolina, until the town’s residents met his demands for a large chest of medicine. After laying low for a few months in North Carolina, Blackbeard was killed in battle with the British Navy. Legend holds that he received 20 stab wounds and five gunshot wounds before finally succumbing.
  • she demanded protection money from coastal communities, attacked ships in the South China Sea and once even kidnapped seven British sailors.
  • Jon Van Hoozer on 30 Apr 14
     
    Ahoy, me hearties! September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, which was invented in 1995 by two guys playing racquetball and made famous seven years later by Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist Dave Barry. In honor of the arrr-ival of this holiday, here's a look at eight of the most notorious swashbucklers to find their sea legs.
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BBC - Travel - In search of pirates in Panama : History, Central America - 1 views

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  • a seven-mile stretch of the old Camino de Cruces, the legendary Spanish treasure trail across the Isthmus of Panama, and a setting for one of the Golden Age of Piracy’s most swashbuckling tales: the sack of Panama City by the pirate Henry Morgan in 1671.
  • saying that he was unaccustomed to corresponding with ‘inferior persons’ and dismissing Morgan as a mere ‘corsair’. In other words, he called the Welshman a pirate.
  • Jon Van Hoozer on 30 Apr 14
     
    It's kind of spooky in the jungle, sweaty and dank, with deep growls of thunder adding a theatrical touch of menace to a shadowy old mule path. Howler monkeys are hooting in the treetops and brightly coloured parrots flit through the branches above, restive ahead of the downpour the whole rainforest knows is brewing.
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Oil Pirates and the Mystery Ship - 1 views

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  • Jon Van Hoozer on 30 Apr 14
     
    On January 18th, a Greek shipping firm lost radio contact with one of its vessels, a Liberian-flagged, 75,000-ton oil tanker named, when it was just a few miles off the port of Luanda, Angola. What happened next is still in dispute.
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Pirates, Then and Now - 0 views

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  • Jon Van Hoozer on 30 Apr 14
     
    The world's attention was riveted in April 2009 when Somali pirates tried to seize the Maersk Alabama, a U.S. cargo vessel delivering relief supplies to Africa. Although the crew was able to fight off the intruders, the pirates seized the ship's skipper, Richard Phillips, and spent the next five days holding him hostage in a lifeboat bobbing in the Gulf of Aden, until U.S.
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