I honestly thought this was a joke when I first read the headline, but then I realized I was reading CNN.com and not PerezHilton.com!
I was unaware that pirates still roamed the open sea.
I guess I just assumed by 2008 almost 2009 there would be some kind of law and law enforcement to prevent this historic act.
There have been a couple of passenger yachts hijacked, but they were much smaller,” he said. It is “quite common” for pirates to target ships the size of the Nautica and even larger, he said, but they tend to be cargo ships, not passenger vessels.
The Nautica escaped without damage or injury to its 684 passengers and 400 crew, and arrived safely on schedule in Salalah, Oman early on Monday morning, Rubacky said.
But the International Maritime Bureau’s Mody warned that there was only so much navies could do even in that zone.
You can check out the full story here; CNN.com, even check out a map of the pirate invested areas!
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