23 October 2009

From the Blogs: Somali Pirates Are Still At It: Hijacking Ships For Ransom

Ran across this blog post concerning piracy, which included the following snippet (full article link below):

"But seriously, it is an embarrassment that pirates can so easily hijack cargo ships with whole crews surrendering at the first sight of the ‘mighty’ inflatable dinghies appearing on the horizon." -Thomas Mathew

Thoughts?

Link to Article

1 comment:

Alexandra said...

Well they are pirates, the name pirate strikes fear in people. The main tactic used by pirates of yore and today is fear. Look at Blackbeard, he manipulated how he looked as to make himself more fearsome. That being said, it is kind of crazy that 8 or so Somali's can take over a giant tanker.But with out guns on board, the advantage is theirs. Hmm, water cannon or RPG.