From: Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: piracy in our time
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 15:14:34 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> > See http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/imb_piracy/weekly_piracy_report.asp
> > for current reports.
> >
>
> Well, with 21 reported incidents of piracy
> in just one week, it does seem
> that piracy, far from being rare, is a
> daily occurrence.  The waters you
> mentioned are perhaps not well policed,
> but I have heard of yachts being
> hijacked or robbed in the Caribbean.  I
> had thought pirate attacks occur
> maybe a couple of times a year, but it
> looks like they are quite common.
>
> Ron Kean
>

It's not just a Tom Clancy story.  The North
Atlantic seems insulated from it, as the
waters are patrolled by the US or NATO, because
communications are good, and because would-be
pirates would have nowhere to sell their takings.
But Somalia, Indonesia, Aden, Malaysia, the Caribbean,
and other areas bordering unstable or nonexistent
governments, all have problems with piracy.  Suprise!

Remember, all these crimes are underreported. Some
victimized shipping firms are embarassed by them.
Other firms whose behavior to their own employees are dishonorable might not want their own behavior disclosed.

Eric

Respectfully,
Eric Jablow
"Another Munich we just can't afford/We're gonna send in the Eighty-Second Airborne!" -- Rolling Stones