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Piracy is a very nasty business and far from the glamorous movie images that are often portrayed by Hollywood. Piracy Today is also are a lot more sinister than the often bland media reports that fail to understand the desperate and dangerous situation facing seafarers.

Many seafarers get killed and injured and suffer badly while in extended captivity and it is a very big money ransom game off Somalia. Pirates reaped more than $100 million in 2009 from ransoming ship and crews. Also piracy is alive and well in Nigeria which takes number two spot and out in Asia the Malacca Straits while relatively quiet these days still has incidents

The number one location for piracy or armed robbery for yachts is around Venezuela where attacks are regular often with dire consequences, and while officially piracy and armed robbery are classified as separate things that is cold comfort to those attacked. I have been a seafarer all my life and have been on ships that have been attacked and boarded by pirates, and this isn’t a new problem, but a problem that has escalated as the global economy creates more targets.

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