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> but what do they do after they have something worth stealing and pirates show up? What do ships do now? Are you aware that ships travel in international wat
by stale2002 8y ago
> but what do they do after they have something worth stealing and pirates show up?
What do ships do now? Are you aware that ships travel in international waters all of the time, and they don't ever have to worry about pirates? This just isn't a real concern.
- w0de0 8y agoThey have to worry about pirates _all the time_.
- gus_massa 8y agoThey call the navy. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-piracy_measures_in_Somalia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-piracy_measures_in_Somali...
- stale2002 8y agoThere are more places in the world than Somalia. I doubt that anyone sailing in the Pacific ocean has to worry about this stuff.
- int_19h 8y agoOther places also have piracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_the_21st_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_the_21st_century In general, you see piracy where it's profitable (i.e. on valuable commerce routes), and where the local governments are not particularly good at fighting it, either because they're weak, or because they're corrupt, or both. Sometimes, because they're too busy fighting each other - piracy generally ticks up during major wars.
- HeyLaughingBoy 8y agoI see. As someone who was trained as a merchant ship's officer and specifically, on how to react to pirates, that simply being in international waters is "protection" is certainly news to me!
- stale2002 8y agoAre you aware that people travel all the time, in sailboats, in the ocean, and most of them don't get attacked by pirates? If I am in the Pacific ocean, sailing in my personal boat, I'm don't have to be worried about being literally attacked. People do this all the time, and do not get attacked. Yeah, if you enter a literal war zone, you might have to worry about that. But that is not most of the ocean. Most of the ships in the ocean do not have to worry about literal pirates.