Pirates in the sea
 

With all these modern ships, are there still pirates in the sea?
I was planning to write own tale about a man living in an old Type II U-boat.
Coudl a man survive and operate the whole sub?

There are still pirates about, though these days they've ditched their wooden galleons for speedboats and pieces of eight for pieces of coke....and I don't mean the drink.
Usually around the South American and Caribbean, old pirate stomping grounds :up:

As for one guy and a uboat, very unlikely IMHO, you've got to take into account the trim tanks, dive planes, ballast tanks, engine speed, all of this has got to be monitored pretty much all the time, he wouldn't have time to sink any ships or claim any booty....but...say a team of...I dunno...five or six people maybe, minimum...they might be able to pull it off. :D

I have not heard of pirates around the Carribean and have been there without seeing one pirate! Yes there are pirates, but try off the Asian coasts and African coasts. Somalia has a ton of them. Not far from Hong Kong is a number of reports too.

Some info on modern pirates - http://globalization.about.com/od/gl...ernpirates.htm

Here is the official report on where they are found (Notice - closest to Carribean is the Peru one):

Piracy prone areas and warnings
S E Asia and the Indian Sub Continent

• Bangladesh : Chittagong anchorage.
• Indonesia : Galasa Straits, Jakarta (Tg.Priok)
• Malacca straits
• Singapore Straits

Africa and Red Sea

• Gulf of Aden / Southern Red Sea
• Somalian waters - Eastern and northeastern coasts are high-risk areas for hijackings. Ships not making scheduled calls to ports in these areas should keep at least 200 nm away from the coast
• West Africa : Lagos

South and Central America and the Caribbean waters

• Peru – Callao

Give the old man a crew of large breasted semi-nude hot babes and you've got a winner!

http://www.arsenicfashions.com/legavenue/83059.jpg

Investigate the daily broadcast warnings at http://www.nga.mil/portal/site/maritime/

sometimes you can read things like this:

MALAYSIA: An unidentified tug and barge are reported missing 21 May (reported 8 Jun) while enroute Port Klang from Kuala Beram, Miri, Sarawak with a cargo of scrap metal. The IMB reports suspicion that crew may have hijacked the vessel (IMB).

SOUTH CHINA SEA: Unidentified product tanker was boarded 31 May at 0225 local time while underway in position 01 32N, 104 38E by 2 persons who entered engine room and broke into stores. Duty engineer raised alarm and the two jumped overboard and escaped (IMB).

Aaah, so the only pirates in the Caribbean lately are in fact the film crew and actors for Pirates of the Caribbean 2....damn... :oops:

M.I.5 has just released documents on Oberon he is a part time pirate. :o

Don't Panic Oberon I don't believe a word of it. ;)

And of course, over at www.venganza.org they've got the proof that the number of pirates is dropping in direct relation to global warming:

http://www.venganza.org/piratesarecool4.jpg

Weekly Piracy Report

http://globalization.about.com/gi/dy...acy_report.asp

Getting a 'the page cannot be displayed' there mate...

No problem here I just checked.

Oh arrr, a pirate I be...

Come to think of it, if we clubbed together and got an ex Russian navy vessel, nothing too big mind, but with a decent gun and a few missiles we could be pirates...

Oooo arrrr....

Dibs on calling her (or him since it's an ex-Russian ship) the "Black Pig"! :D

http://skeptico.blogs.com/photos/unc...ed/pugwash.jpg