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Welcome to Pirates! Fact- General History.
[Introduction]
[Ancient Piracy] [Roman
Times]
[Middle Ages] [Golden
Years of Piracy]
[Contemporary Pirates]
British couple was attacked, in Summer 1996, while sailing around Corfu Island
(Greece) with assault rifles and grenades, months earlier armed men attacked tanker
Succi when she was only few hours from Singapore. The pirates tied up the crew and
put it in a life boat and sailed off. The crew was rescued but the tanker
disappeared.
According to London based International Maritime Bureau, there were 224 incidents
of piracy and armed robbery of ships.
According to Time Magazine article: A Plague of Pirates (Time Magazine, August
18, 1997) modern pirates operate differently depending on geographic location.
Arabian Sea pirates use the most modern weapons while West Africans use knives and
dugout canoes.
Brazilian pirates take advantage of the fact that Brazil does not have the Coast
Guard. In the Far East piracy is controlled by organized crime and pirates kidnap
the whole ships and cargo.
South China Sea is almost as dangerous place, as it was in the ancient times.
Chinese pirates are perhaps the most blatant often operating under the protection of
the Chinese government.
[Introduction]
[Ancient Piracy] [Roman
Times]
[Middle Ages] [Golden
Years of Piracy]
[Contemporary Pirates]
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