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...movies made in some lost developing country or the extremely successful Disney franchise Pirates of the Caribbean. Some gravity, however, is called for: This year alone, pirates with land bases in Somalia have attacked over 100 ships off the coast of Africa. Most notably, they have held a Saudi tanker with over 100 million dollars in oil and a Ukrainian ship full of Soviet-era tanks (the destination of which remains unknown). According to CNN, as of December 5, almost 300 crew in 14 vessels adrift at sea remained hostage to Somali pirates. Clearly, these guys are not your regular...
...Somalia's pirates demonstrated the growth in their sophistication and capability last month when they seized the giant Saudi oil tanker Sirius Star some 450 nautical miles out at sea - well beyond the pirates' previous range. One of the men involved in that raid, 24-year-old Mohamed Dashishle described a distinctly low-tech operation, though organized by men he said had once trained in the Somali coast guard. One of the pirates' "mother ships" spotted the tanker and deployed three small skiffs to surround it. Dashishle told TIME that the pirates simply had to brandish their rocket-propelled grenade...
...Somalia Pirates Aim Higher With their capture of a colossal Saudi oil tanker on Nov. 15, Somali pirates seized their largest vessel yet amid a torrent of other hijackings in the Gulf of Aden, where there have been at least eight attacks in just the past two weeks. Pirates currently hold an estimated 17 vessels and some 300 crew for ransom. Some shipping firms are resorting to the long, costly route around Africa to avoid the gulf's dangerous waters...
Boeing 747 231 ft. Cargo ship, captured Sept. 25, 2008 529 ft. Oil tanker, captured...
...ship, the Delight, in the Gulf of Aden. According the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), the Delight, which is now bearing toward Somalia, joins 17 other ships currently being held by pirates. This week has been particularly successful for piracy: Last weekend buccaneers captured a Japanese-operated chemical and oil tanker as well as a Saudi supertanker, which holds roughly $100 million worth of oil and is three times the size of an aircraft carrier. And let’s not forget the Ukrainian cargo ship, the Faina, which was captured in September while carrying $30 million of weapons and tanks...