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The World's Most Dangerous Waters

forbes.com — The perilous rescue of captain Richard Phillips is just one episode in a worldwide renaissance of sea piracy that began a decade ago.

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  • inactive, on 04/27/2009, -1/+8Forbes Slideshows are even more dangerous.

    1. Somalia
    2. Nigeria
    3. Indonesia
    4. Gulf of Aden/Red Sea
    5. Straits of Malacca
    6. Tanzania
    7. Bangladesh
    8. Malaysia
    9. Peru
  • pookydirt, on 04/27/2009, -3/+9And today it was reported... pirates were unsuccessful at taking an Italian CRUISE ship! Not just tankers and cargo!
  • pcpimpster, on 04/27/2009, -1/+4Just make more SEAL snipers, problem solved.
  • haaki, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1Now this is the interesting question: Is it safer to arm ships and start open gun fights at sea? Or stay unarmed, surrender in case of an attack and wait for the real trained army to help you out? I vote for no armed ships..

    Read this to understand better what i mean: http://winter-travel.org/travel-news/pirates-attac ...

    What do you think?
  • nullcodes, on 04/27/2009, -1/+2These Sri Lankan Navy videos show why there aren't pirates off the coast of Sri Lanka:

    http://www.defence.lk/videos/20090426_Navy.wmv

    http://www.defence.lk/video/LTTEdestroyedShip20070 ...
  • diamanta25, on 04/27/2009, -2/+3I thought the headline said "The World's Most Dangerous Waiters". I was really intrigued and then disappointed.
  • cerejota, on 04/28/2009, -0/+1'Da *****!
  • inactive, on 04/29/2009, -0/+1I was looking for Bong Water...
  • thebeginning, on 04/27/2009, -2/+2I'm curious as to what percentage of diggers will actually be able to utilize this information for their benefit.
  • slavetolust, on 04/28/2009, -1/+1only the last decade huh?
  • WorGul, on 04/28/2009, -1/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate In 846 Muslim pirates sacked Rome, in the 1800s Zheng Yi had ten thousand men and could fight the Chinese navy. Zaporozhian Cossacks forced the Sultan to flee Istanbul.
    How on earth are these recent pirates the 'bloodiest'? Hyperbole, no?
  • DirtPile, on 04/27/2009, -2/+1Dugg for Forbes' excellence in content layout.

    /s
  • gatorfree, on 04/28/2009, -2/+1Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark.
  • atomheartmother, on 04/27/2009, -5/+2The guy in front looks like Obama's brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama.

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