Well, since the old piracy thread has disappeared, here is a new one, with new incidents to discuss:
U.S. Gunships Battle Pirates Who Seized Ships Off Somalia, Mogadishu
An international watchdog reported this month that pirate attacks worldwide jumped 14 percent in the first nine months of 2007, with the biggest increases off the poorly policed waters of Somalia and Nigeria.
Reported attacks in Somalia rose rapidly to 26, up from eight a year earlier, the London-based International Maritime Bureau said through its piracy reporting center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. And some of those hijackings have turned deadly. Indonesia remained the world's worst piracy hotspot, with 37 attacks in the first nine months of 2007. But that was an improvement from 40 in the same period a year earlier, IMB said.
The IMB said Southeast Asia's Malacca Strait, one of the world's busiest waterways, has been relatively quiet with 198 attacks on ships reported between January and September, up from 174 in the same period in 2006.
It said 15 vessels were hijacked, 63 crew members kidnapped and three killed.
Oil-rich Nigeria suffered 26 pirate attacks so far this year, up from nine in the same period last year.
Took 9 edits to get the fonts and size the same for all the parts. I hate Yucku.
