From Yahoo News/AP:ISTANBUL – While Somali pirates top headlines with brazen ship hijackings for ransom, many smaller-scale attacks in the world's oceans — maritime muggings, essentially — go unreported, depriving mariners of information about possible threats to their safety and vessels.
Industry analysts say some owners and masters of commercial boats prefer not to report relatively small losses from piracy, or attempted boardings, because they worry about clean records, costly delays in the event of an investigation in the nearest port, jittery clients who might take business elsewhere, and the likelihood of higher insurance rates if they log an attack with authorities.
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My Comment: In the past .... pirates who were caught while conducting piracy walked the plank into the ocean .... which in the past was also a very effective method to deter piracy.
Today .... our lawyers control the agenda and in the case of piracy .... law enforcement.
No surprise .... naval piracy is getting worse.
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