'Adventure and money' lure sailors to dangerous waters

Second mate Anupam Bhattacharji heard the shots before he saw the pirates hook their ladder onto his ship and climb aboard. The deck of the MT Sea Princess II - loaded down with oil and travelling off the coast of Yemen - floated just a metre above sea level.
The boat was a small type of vessel known as "low and slow" - textbook prey for the Somali marauders.
One crewman ran into the galley to hide and a bullet flew through the door and killed him. He had only joined the Sea Princess, his first vessel, one day earlier.
The rest of the 17 Indian, Yemeni and Iraqi crew obeyed the pirates' orders to turn the ship towards Somalia.
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Source: The National