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A Sensible Approach to Piracy on the High Seas

September 15, 2009 - 12:30 am - by Dan Miller
Dan Miller
2009-09-15 07:39:13

Here is a short account of a recent pirate attack on a North Korean cargo ship off the coast of Somalia. “[T]he pirates gave chase but the crew threw fire bottles and fired parachute distress rocket flares at the bandits.” It worked, but a few well aimed rifle shots fired at the two pirate speed boats could have sunk them, which strikes me as an improved result.