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Pirates In The 21st Century

posted December 1, 2008 - 10:14am
Pirates In The 21st Century

My thoughts on all the pirating going on.

Oh the news! Every morning when I awake its turn on the coffee pot, feed Kittuni, take my shower,get dressed, and then finally I turn on the morning news and watch my invisible plants grow. Whew...life of a woman, but lets save that for another time.

Well a couple of days ago I almost choked on my delicious dark elixir (my coffee) when the reporter on channel 13 announced that modern day pirates from Africa had taken over a ship.

Now I don't know about anyone else, but when I think of Pirates, I think of Black Beard, Captain Hook, and Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. All the makeup, striped shirts, a patch over the eye, and of course the almighty hook! Steeling woman and anything of any value at all.

With seeing the news the past few days all they are talking about is the Pirates from Africa taking over huge modern day tanker ships. I am a bit confused by all of this. Arrrr... matie is there any gold on that ship or woman we can rape or capture? Crazy stuff our world is going through. How on earth did they breech the ship in the first place is my question. How can someone just walk onto a monster ship and take over the massive thing? These tanker are not small in any respect. They must employee hundreds if not thousands.

There must be many many pirates to succeed in this venture is all I can say or they have giant weapons. Where did they come from? The Pirates that is, did they just wake up one day and after watching a movie from years past decide there new found job was to be a Pirate? Where did they find all the other pirates to join in their adventure? Maybe I am a bit slow, but none of this makes much sense to me.

And now we come to the folks trying to capture those darn pirates, It seems many countries was in on this chase, but only one made the cut. The Indian Navy! Wow, what an incredible feat they have accomplished. No one else seemed to be able to control these sea Jekyll's, but they sunk their damn ship! How proud all Indians are for this feat and as they should be.

Who knows maybe we should take some tips from them to help us conquer Iraq and Afghanistan. It only took them a couple days to rid the Indian Ocean from these vilians, maybe with a month we could have world peace.
I realize this is a serious problem, but when I first heard this it struck me kind of funny. I hope no one takes offense by this.



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I was equally surprised...

... when I heard about this in the news. I mean Pirates? Today? ... but I think they take the crew hostage for ransom money. It's very lucrative! Read my book, Mythalia: A Paradise Under Siege

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Many modern-day merchants and tankers are automated

Some of the largest merchant vessels and oil tankers have gone to automation to run many of the systems that used to require a large crew. As a result, a mid-20th century crew of 100-200 can be reduced to less than 20 officers and crew. Given the size of the ship, it would not be terribly difficult to put boarders on such a vessel and overpower the crew, particularly if the pirates have any knowledge of computers and navigation. Despite all of the recent publicity given the Somali pirates, the most dangerous waters in the world to navigate because of piracy can be found in the Straits of Malacca near Malaysia. It is a bottleneck of a highway of tankers, merchants, and private vessels because the alternative is a longer voyage around the southern coast of Malaysia, which adds time and cost to the bottom line of the shipowners. I was in the US Navy for ten years and made the transit back in 1995. Even we were paying close attention to who was near us. While it would be difficult to fence a million barrels of Saudi Arabia's finest without state sponsorship, it is possible to take enough cargo off of a container ship (or something more lucrative, depending on the computer savviness of the group controlling the pirates) to make smaller operations worthwhile. JOIN XOMBA IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD!

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