A mariner's nightmare

Not a single day passes by when a seafarer does not think of piracy at sea. It is a nightmare for all mariners, who live on the sea. No mariner, however strong he is, can deny that he is not scared of the scourge of piracy at sea.
It was another win for the barefoot buccaneers of Somalia. They collected a $5.5 million ransom payment for a German-owned chemical tanker. Then, a day later, they hijacked another European cargo vessel, adding its eight crew members to their growing hoard of hostages. The Somali piracy crisis is appalling, and "outpacing" the international efforts to solve it.
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Source: Safety4sea