Piracy Reached Record Level in 2010, Monitors Say

[alp227]

Source: The New York Times

Despite an international effort to ensure safe passage through the world’s most treacherous waters, pirates escalated their attacks in 2010 for the fourth straight year, striking more ships and taking more hostages last year than in any year on record, according to an annual report on piracy.

The report, by the Piracy Reporting Center of the International Maritime Bureau, found that pirates had taken 1,181 people hostage and killed 8 in attacks on 445 ships over the course of 2010. At least 53 ships were hijacked last year, the bureau said.

Attacks on ships were up 10 percent over 2009, as were the number of hostages. Pirates captured 1,050 people in 2009, with 4 killed.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/world/19pirates.html

[HankyDubs]

1. Go Pirates!

Fuck the multinational death machine!

[denbot]

3. Are you fucking kidding..

Seriously?

[footinmouth]

4. My son works on a vessel

that has to travel through the dangerous pirate waters. As a navigation officer I would hardly call him part of the multi-national death machine. Geez, I think you're reaching a bit.

[DCKit]

2. Guess I waited too long to buy that ocean-going yacht. nt

[Devil_Fish]

5. 2010 was also one of the coldest years in a decade. Coincidence? I think not...