Luxury Russian Cruise Hunts Somali Pirates

And anyway, now the word’s out, I don’t suppose the pirates will be so dim as to chance it.

Sounds like a thinly-veiled human safari to me, even if the prey are criminals who should be persecuted and arrested.

How about we arrest them instead of hunting them down for fun and profit? International waters vigilantism does not sound like a good idea to me.

Not real. Simple as that.

yep, its fake

http://www.somalicruises.com/

Mytake- “How about we arrest them instead of hunting them down for fun and profit?”

Some time ago some of them were arrested to be put on trial and thrown in the slammer in a European facility. The reaction of those pirates was as if they had won the lottery- To them European jails seemed like top-luxury hotel accomodation with a good bed, good food, nice things to do and even some modest pay that to them was a fortune. I’ve never seen more happy customers when the judge spoke verdict…

Agreed- Making a fun-exiting holiday trip out of hunting for pirates perhaps is a little raking back to those “Good” Old Days when rich folks went out hunting Injuns and Kaffers.

…But I also don’t think that these guys are scared all that much by threatening them with Western style jailtime…

Where do I sign up?

These new rich Russians are bigger pirates then anz Somali fisherman will ever be. Most of them are veterans of mob wars in Siberian oil towns.

I have ad blocking software but a friend just told me that some ads might not be safe for work in that link.

None of you know WHY or HOW they became “pirates”.
Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, “Hey, I think I’ll risk my life committing crimes on a rickety boat 30 miles offshore!”
Somalian waters were the world’s dumping grounds after their government fell apart. Their waters were so polluted that the fishing industry was decimated.
Initially, fishermen got in their boats to prevent ships from dumping toxic waste off their shores. When the ships ignored them, they were compelled to attempt to board in order to stop the illegal dumping. But the dumping continued and now the fishermen have turned into “pirates” by “fishing” their waters for ships.

Hey! Wasn’t this an episode on “Gilligan’s Island”??? Think it was Rory Calhoun playing the big game hunter who pays to hunt Gilligan…

Vagabondo I understand your point. But it still sounds a lot like that the criminal has to be forgiven because he had a bad youth and an even worse stepmother and so on. If you turn to crime for whatever noble or desperate reason thinkable- Expect to be at least halted and even as likely – punished somehow. And then don’t blame anyone else but yourself, because it was you who made the choise to do crime. Same with these pirates – they still are pirates, whatever their reasons to go into that trade in the first place. And as pirates, they can be stopped with as far as I’m concerned whatever means that work.

sign me up im ready to exterminate those pirates a little more of an arsonal though

Let them come, I can’t wait them!

I won’t even use my AK47, I will use my machete to cut their(the Rich Rusian) head off!

We (the Somali Pirates) haven’t killed any of our hostages so far but if this news is true , We will spill a lot of blood in the see and feed their headless bodies to our hungry sharks !

Somali Pirate Spokes Man

Already been done. Malacca straits 1964.

Too bad its a hoax. I was looking forward to signing up. Can you imagine how few attacks would occur if these pirates thought the next attack was their last?

Seriously, once you thin the ranks of the hard core cases the remaining pirates would disband just like the 1700s and 1800s.

We really need to sink a few mother ships.

Where can I get website,email,phone and reagular
mail info ect. for this Kool,Russian crusie,vaction for 2010/2011.
I’d love to go.
Thanks Dave Fisherman.-USA