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Commented on British couple who blogged sailing trip around the world feared captured by Somali pirates
If you offer realtime updates on your progress through Pirate Alley then you can't be surprised when pirates jack your vessel. Perhaps I'm insensitive, but such a stunt vastly decreases one's deservingness of sympathy or international aid, too. Buy the...
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Antinous / Moderator commented on British couple who blogged sailing trip around the world feared captured by Somali pirates
How Nice to see the staff here hurling insults at the readership. To paraphrase Mel Brooks: Comedy is when strangers are abducted by Somali pirates. Tragedy is when someone is snarky to you on the internet....
Vince commented on British couple who blogged sailing trip around the world feared captured by Somali pirates
Looks like their last contact was at the Seychelles. This guy took an even wider route... "The "word" at Chagos was "piracy". Apparently conditions in the Seychelles had deteriorated since I'd left Galle. It was like none of the boats in Chagos wanted to go any farther west. The Cornell waypoint from Chagos To Madagascar passes you well to the North of the Saya bank at about latitude 10 degrees. I decided to cut through at the 13 degree latitude for insurance which gave me more distance from the Seychelles." http://lucidsalt.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html...
Mark Crummett commented on British couple who blogged sailing trip around the world feared captured by Somali pirates
Pleasure sailing off the east coast of Africa- what could possibly go wrong? I'm sure these are nice people and all, but sailing through that part of the world these days seems like a bad idea. Good luck to them....
phenomenon commented on British couple who blogged sailing trip around the world feared captured by Somali pirates
The point is, even people that are not sailing know about Somali pirates. Congratulations on your completely pointless analogy though, too bad it doesn't fit at all (not even a little bit). If you look at the ICC piracy map, they were inside the area where there has been a lot of incidents of pirate attacks, including what seems to be three actual attacks on the course they were taking according to their blog. These pirates are not interested in their vessel or their stuff as much as they are interested in getting a ransom paid. And these pirates have...
holtt commented on British couple who blogged sailing trip around the world feared captured by Somali pirates
"We had to pass three warships, one French, one American and one Canadian. No doubt they are here to deal with the pirates," they blogged in June. I hope their boat wasn't called "Beagle"...

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