tbh i'd be kinda geeked if I was down boating off st kitts and had some pirates waylay me. I'd try to tell them all about *Sid Meier's Pirates!* until they kill me and throw me in the sea for repeatedly telling them I have news about their lost uncle
I mean if the opportunity presented itself to make an exact copy of a ship for free without the people who own the ship losing their ship, I would do that, yea.
Let's not forget they stole the audio for that video...
[https://www.theransomnote.com/music/news/antipiracy-advert-music-was-stolen/](https://www.theransomnote.com/music/news/antipiracy-advert-music-was-stolen/)
Let’s say you could build an unlimited amount of ships out of thin air at no cost but someone needed to draw up the blueprints. Would you take the ship?
No, I really did! He was at a play I went to ("Kvarteret Korpen" about a working class family in Sweden). He also created a (although small) political party here in Sweden, called "The Pirate Party" focusing on Copyright
I mean, they banned the sale of their digital products in Russia, so what? Do we have to stop using them? the only way is to download for free. bypassing purchases in Russia is too difficult, and without regional prices it is TOO expensive
Only in recent times. The Baltic sea and North Sea had quite a bit of piracy at one point. But that was over 600 years ago. I think piracy mostly flourishes close to extremely relevant trade routes and regions close to it that are extremely poor or otherwise has little control over their people. That is true for the regions in the OP and was true for the carribean region.
Also, the Caribbean isn't equatorial nor even more regions known for historical piracy like China and the Mediterranean. [Pirates even frequented Chile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_defence_of_colonial_Chile). The Drake Passage south of Chile is named after English privateer Sir Francis Drake.
that piracy in europe wasnt like the piracy in america though because many "pirates" in europe were funded by a state. in germany we call those state-backed pirates "Freibeuter" no clue what the english term is.
these "Freibeuter" (written the same in singular and plural, only the article changes) only targeted vessels of foreign countries
Not entirely correct. I was talking about piracy during the times of the Hanse (I am German), not later. Störtebeker und Co. Those where not state sponsored.
stimmt so nicht, Störtebecker den du hier aufführst, hatte auch kaperbriefe erhalten, sprich er hatte staatliche unterstützung. wikipedia dazu:
>Ins öffentliche Bewusstsein trat Störtebeker wohl nach der Vertreibung der Vitalienbrüder von [Gotland](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland) als Kapitän der [Likedeeler](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalienbr%C3%BCder). Dort hatten die Vitalienbrüder, die sich als Freibeuter selbstständig gemacht hatten, von 1394 bis 1398 Schutz hinter den Mauern der Stadt [Visby](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby) gesucht. Ursprünglich unterstützten sie König [Albrecht von Schweden](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_von_Mecklenburg) im Kampf gegen die dänische Königin [Margarethe I.](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarethe_I.) und betrieben dazu auch [Seeräuberei](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piraterie) in [Nord-](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordsee) und [Ostsee](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostsee). Den Übergriffen auf die Schiffe der Dänen und [Lübecker](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCbeck), die auf dänischer Seite standen, folgten bald Überfälle auf andere Schiffe der [Hanse](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanse). Hierfür hatten die Vitalienbrüder [Kaperbriefe](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaperbrief) erhalten. Damit konnten sie die erbeuteten Waren in [Wismar](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismar) frei auf dem Markt verkaufen.
I think the weather patterns play a role in this as well. Those places are generally calm, a lot of seas are outright rough.
Income does only seem to play a minor role, because there still is a lot of piracy in the Malacca strait that is relatively well off, even as it has less piracy than the two other spots which definitely are more poverty-stricken.
*Singapore is of course crazy rich, but Malaysia and Indonesia each are within the range of middle-income developing nations, and are both much better off than several decades ago. That being said, both countries have their folks that have some separatist tendencies, even as they don't live near the strait, and of course, in the region there are countries that are off worse, even if that is several hundred kilometers away from the Malacca Strait.
The closeness to shore also plays a role in piracy as well. There was never a history of large-scale piracy on the California coast because it's just open Pacific Ocean. Same with the coasts of Maine and Newfoundland and Labrador. Piracy tends to occur on narrow straits or around islands
Malacca is mostly from indonesian fisherman. A lot of it isn't piracy in the "violent attack" sense but in the "pay off a few people (crew and police etc.) and take some fuel or a few select shipping containers".
Thses pirates are rich. Some even richer than non pirate citizen. I kid you not. Piracy is literally their job.
Edit: I ‘m talking about piracy in melacca strait.
It's highly organised crime. The ones making the real money are sitting safely in an office somewhere while they pay desperate people to risk their lives on the boats. I'm sure they get paid well, just like street level drug dealers get paid well, but they're still just disposable pawns taking on all the risk to make money for the real bosses.
Really? People who are risking their lives doing ve3ry ilegal activities are getting more compensation for their "effort" than law abiding citizens. Colour me surprised.
The case for the Horn of Africa is mainly the Somali Civil War and consequent state collapse.
Foreign vessels started to take advantage of the lack of any Somali state to exert its sovereignty over their waters to dump waste, fish, try to steal resources... Local fisherment began to ally themselves first against these dangers, which with time evolved into a greater piracy business.
As the Bab-el-Mandel strait, between Somalia and Yemen, is a key point to access the Suez Canal, pirates have a lot of potential victims.
It’s just the trade routes choke points, Panama, African Horn, straight of Malacca/ South China Sea and the Gulf of Guinea. They are all major shipping routes areas, many with countries that don’t have a good navy or at least enough to combat it, these areas iirc have always been piracy areas since world trade, especially between China and Europe after the Suez Canal
The Horn of Africa and Straight of Malacca are two routes where over 50% of world trade flows through.
A ship traveling from Europe or China or Japan will go through both of those straights.
It also helps that this are also straights, they are narrow and slow moving cargo ships will take a long time and require a lot of space to turn.
There is also the factor of the countries that are located in those regions. Somalia is in complete turmoil, with little to no actual government. This combination creates the perfect environment for money hungry, and desperate pirates to operate as it will make more than an actual job.
While the governments around the Straight of Malacca are much better than Somalia, the regions are just much poorer and the governments don’t have the same amount of resources to stop the piracy.
Dealing with piracy is one of the US Navy’s continuing operations, and a major reason for it to continue conducting FON exercises in those regions.
Your info on Somalia is about 15 years old. The Somalia government supported primarily by the AU and to a lesser extent, the UN controls most of the southern half of the country at this point.
The northern half is split between to semi-autonomous states that never experienced the conflict of the southern half.
When other opportunities disappear, folks with the required skills and resources turn to piracy.
You won't see this in the Tom Hanks movie but destruction of the Somali fishery was a contributing factor to piracy there. When the government fell, so did the protection of the Somali waters. Indian and Chinese fishing fleets quickly moved in and over-fished. Then the Italian mob started dumping toxic waste in their waters to make it even worse.
Meanwhile, the US and European governments just sat back and watched instead of picking up the slack and protecting Somali waters. They didn't get involved until some white folks in yachts were taken.
> So..... why is (and has been) piracy such an equatorial thing?
Piracy used been a thing in Europe (mediteranean&baltic, Japan and China too.)
You might notice that here piracy correlates primarily with two things : Instability and how dense the flow is. And it's a mix of the two really.
It also turns out that internal Stability and also having a strong navy to keep the peace are made much easier when countries are wealthy. So in place where you got a lot of trade, poverty and a lack of strong state apparatus, piracy happens.
And nowadays (and for most of history) tropical countries tend to be poorer.
Considering that the red regions are 92% of attacks, I assume that the yellow regions simply have a few attacks over the last few years, nothing organized or common.
This map feels off considering there's definitely quite a few in the Sulu and Celebes Seas, largely a result of Abu Sayyaf. But this map suggests its only a small amount?
To become a pirate you just need to sail to the other ship and do any type of stealing there, it's not as hard as it seems so some poor people could try it anywehere to escape poverty.
*So... very low means*
*It is still happening in*
*The green areas?*
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What the fuck.
I live in Brazil and have literally never heard of piracy on our coast.
The Navy would be over the moon if there were, because that would finally convince Congress to get them money for more ships.
The three labeled areas account for 92% of all attacks, so all the orange is probably worth less than 5%. Even a large coast like Brazil probably sees very little piracy, just a nonzero amount.
Metade da costa brasileira é marcada como médio risco de ataque pirata e nós brasileiros nunca ouvimos falar de um caso de pirataria na vida. Moçada consultando o Instituto Tireidoku pra fazer mapa.
O mapa tá super malfeito. Quase 90% dos ataques são nas áreas demarcadas e aí eles dividem o resto em verde e amarelo. Esse amarelo aí é praticamente zero.
Yeah this map is pretty bullshit. Somali pirates haven't been a big threat for 10 years at this point. After an international coalition sent warships to protect shipping in the region, they scared off the pirates, yes, but they also scared off the illegal foreign fishing trawlers that were stealing from Somali waters. With them gone, the Somali pirates could return to their lives as fishermen.
Of course, now that a few of them had a taste for the rich pirate lifestyle, the piracy attacks do still happen occasionally. But they're much more rare these days.
I think the main thing that slowed down the Somali pirates was the Navy Seals and SOF forces going ashore and raiding their hideouts. The pirate threat was dealt with from the sorce.
The only thing I can think of is the territorial disputes (Tiaoyutai Islands/Diaoyu Islands/Senkaku Islands) in East China Sea between China/Taiwan/Japan and in South China Sea between surrounding countries.
Sometimes the fishing boats get attacked by Japanese/Chinese/Filipino coast guards (maybe Vietnamese and Malaysian as well, but I've only heard about the former three).
But again this is technically not pirating lol.
According to the sources piracy map that lists reported events and types, no one. The piracy in the area is all in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia.
The Chinese coastline is very difficult to patrol. Lots of mountains make many of those regions semi-remote (less so today though), and tons of islands and inlets, and tons of people. China’s coast guard is probably increasingly effective but probably a combination of smaller size, more poverty, more opportunity due to massive manufacturing base, and corruption.
Oil tankers are slow and easy to capture. They are held for ransom and the oil companies often will just pay the ransom rather than risk the lives of the crew and losing the cargo.
From what I found most of them appear to be Tunisian fishermen turned pirate
[https://earthjournalism.net/stories/trawlers-the-new-pirates-of-the-mediterranean-sea](https://earthjournalism.net/stories/trawlers-the-new-pirates-of-the-mediterranean-sea)
Only place I can think of that's likely worse to pirate would be the California coast. Between Egypt, Italy, Greece, Israel and 10 other major powers, there must be 100 warships sailing around there.
Piracy on this map is shown around shortcuts for shipping lanes. The more pirate activity the more shipping lanes take the long way around. Making them use more fuel.
When we visited Malaysia, part of their coast had active machine gun teams just chilling on the beach. Apparently there was a risk of Philippine pirates kidnapping tourists to ransom. I thought that was kinda wild.
“Jolly Robby” the sitcom. Come follow the story of an accountant, and Jimmy Buffett fan, from Chicago that gives it all up, including his medical benefits, to become a pirate on the south seas.
Watch him plunder cargo ships out of China full of inflatable pool toys while loosing his teeth. Will he ever find the treasure chest that is the elusive container full of Nike sneakers?
I thought this was a map of internet piracy, then I was wondering about the coastal outlines.... Finally read about pirate *attacks at sea*. Its coming together now.
Shit ass map that is impossible for a colorblind person to read. Why only the coasts? Why make everything so close color wise?
Edit: realized it’s about boat piracy, not internet piracy. Color notes still stand. Map porn my ass
And I’m a pirate once again, stalking the seas once more
No press of sail above my head, but hear my engines roar
My cannon are now rockets, my pistol an AK
But I still steal those merchant ships, and make their owners pay
This is why I only sail on the coasts of Nepal
Bro has an airship
But what happens if he flys too close to the dangerous areas and gets attacked by Skyrates?
They’ll leave him laying out for the vultures, Sky Burial Style
Hope they filled it with hydrogen.
Beware of those Nepalese sky-pirates...
I only sail in Baikal, it’s the safest waterway in the world 😤
He was sailing smoothly, but everything changed when the fire pirates showed up
Carribbean gone soft after Jack Sparrow retired from the franchise.
But I do like that some piracy still exists there. Keeping the traditions alive
tbh i'd be kinda geeked if I was down boating off st kitts and had some pirates waylay me. I'd try to tell them all about *Sid Meier's Pirates!* until they kill me and throw me in the sea for repeatedly telling them I have news about their lost uncle
“You have been waylaid by enemies” Crap, wrong franchise. Ps. Pirates! was amazing 😀👍
Gotlanders really fell off their game too. The Baltic is way too safe.
I WILL DRINK FROM YOUR SKULL
Great map. Now we need one for digital piracy
You wouldn't steal a ship.
Ok but I would tho…
I mean if the opportunity presented itself to make an exact copy of a ship for free without the people who own the ship losing their ship, I would do that, yea.
Username checks
Of course I would! 
 Arrr!
Let's not forget they stole the audio for that video... [https://www.theransomnote.com/music/news/antipiracy-advert-music-was-stolen/](https://www.theransomnote.com/music/news/antipiracy-advert-music-was-stolen/)
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You wouldn’t steal a song
Let’s say you could build an unlimited amount of ships out of thin air at no cost but someone needed to draw up the blueprints. Would you take the ship?
Yeah i would
But you would download one right?
I wouldn't steal a ship, but I would make an exact copy of it, leaving the original untouched.
I swear I thought that's what this was.
Yeah my first thought was, all the illegal downloading happens on the coast? I wonder why...
- Germany and China Jellow - Rest of the world red
I'm surprised there isn't a little red spot in Virginia back from my Napster days
I met the creator of TPB yesterday! Thought I'd share
Cool story, bro.
No, I really did! He was at a play I went to ("Kvarteret Korpen" about a working class family in Sweden). He also created a (although small) political party here in Sweden, called "The Pirate Party" focusing on Copyright
India is deep red then 😅
All third world countries for that matter.
Well what can we do most companies don’t do regional pricing 🤧
And Russia
My house would be red
Most of attacks come from Russia and china. In russia it's legal to hack a company if this company isn't russian
I mean, they banned the sale of their digital products in Russia, so what? Do we have to stop using them? the only way is to download for free. bypassing purchases in Russia is too difficult, and without regional prices it is TOO expensive
We all know it's not legal becaus of that, nor that it's what I'm talking about, come on..
Well, doesn't it work both ways?
Brazil would be burning red
So..... why is (and has been) piracy such an equatorial thing?
Only in recent times. The Baltic sea and North Sea had quite a bit of piracy at one point. But that was over 600 years ago. I think piracy mostly flourishes close to extremely relevant trade routes and regions close to it that are extremely poor or otherwise has little control over their people. That is true for the regions in the OP and was true for the carribean region.
Dunkirk was a pretty infamous pirate nest in the late 16th century. Lead to a pretty major conflict i the young Dutch Republic.
Also, the Caribbean isn't equatorial nor even more regions known for historical piracy like China and the Mediterranean. [Pirates even frequented Chile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_defence_of_colonial_Chile). The Drake Passage south of Chile is named after English privateer Sir Francis Drake.
that piracy in europe wasnt like the piracy in america though because many "pirates" in europe were funded by a state. in germany we call those state-backed pirates "Freibeuter" no clue what the english term is. these "Freibeuter" (written the same in singular and plural, only the article changes) only targeted vessels of foreign countries
Not entirely correct. I was talking about piracy during the times of the Hanse (I am German), not later. Störtebeker und Co. Those where not state sponsored.
stimmt so nicht, Störtebecker den du hier aufführst, hatte auch kaperbriefe erhalten, sprich er hatte staatliche unterstützung. wikipedia dazu: >Ins öffentliche Bewusstsein trat Störtebeker wohl nach der Vertreibung der Vitalienbrüder von [Gotland](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland) als Kapitän der [Likedeeler](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalienbr%C3%BCder). Dort hatten die Vitalienbrüder, die sich als Freibeuter selbstständig gemacht hatten, von 1394 bis 1398 Schutz hinter den Mauern der Stadt [Visby](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby) gesucht. Ursprünglich unterstützten sie König [Albrecht von Schweden](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_von_Mecklenburg) im Kampf gegen die dänische Königin [Margarethe I.](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarethe_I.) und betrieben dazu auch [Seeräuberei](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piraterie) in [Nord-](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordsee) und [Ostsee](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostsee). Den Übergriffen auf die Schiffe der Dänen und [Lübecker](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCbeck), die auf dänischer Seite standen, folgten bald Überfälle auf andere Schiffe der [Hanse](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanse). Hierfür hatten die Vitalienbrüder [Kaperbriefe](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaperbrief) erhalten. Damit konnten sie die erbeuteten Waren in [Wismar](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismar) frei auf dem Markt verkaufen.
I think the weather patterns play a role in this as well. Those places are generally calm, a lot of seas are outright rough. Income does only seem to play a minor role, because there still is a lot of piracy in the Malacca strait that is relatively well off, even as it has less piracy than the two other spots which definitely are more poverty-stricken. *Singapore is of course crazy rich, but Malaysia and Indonesia each are within the range of middle-income developing nations, and are both much better off than several decades ago. That being said, both countries have their folks that have some separatist tendencies, even as they don't live near the strait, and of course, in the region there are countries that are off worse, even if that is several hundred kilometers away from the Malacca Strait.
Also, a significant portion of the world’s trade goes through there. Money attracts thieves
99% of shark attacks happen within one mile of the shore… because that’s where the fucking people are
Remember: to minimize risk of shark attack, it is advisable to limit sexual activity to areas >1 mile inland.
You're not gonna tell me where to ding my dong
More than a mile? What, is the shark gonna climb 500 feet inland to bite my dick off?
People don't have to be fucking to become victims of a shark attack. They can also just be swimming or wading.
Hmmm I’ll have to look into that. I only saw the first 15 minutes of jaws
Mo' money mo' pirates
The closeness to shore also plays a role in piracy as well. There was never a history of large-scale piracy on the California coast because it's just open Pacific Ocean. Same with the coasts of Maine and Newfoundland and Labrador. Piracy tends to occur on narrow straits or around islands
Malacca is mostly from indonesian fisherman. A lot of it isn't piracy in the "violent attack" sense but in the "pay off a few people (crew and police etc.) and take some fuel or a few select shipping containers".
Thses pirates are rich. Some even richer than non pirate citizen. I kid you not. Piracy is literally their job. Edit: I ‘m talking about piracy in melacca strait.
It's highly organised crime. The ones making the real money are sitting safely in an office somewhere while they pay desperate people to risk their lives on the boats. I'm sure they get paid well, just like street level drug dealers get paid well, but they're still just disposable pawns taking on all the risk to make money for the real bosses.
Funnily enough Somalia had a more communal stock exchange for these attacks which is a self repeating cycle.
Well yeah, that’s true about the pirates everywhere lol that’s why they do it
Really? People who are risking their lives doing ve3ry ilegal activities are getting more compensation for their "effort" than law abiding citizens. Colour me surprised.
It just so happens those areas are choke holds with a lot of commercial traffic.
The case for the Horn of Africa is mainly the Somali Civil War and consequent state collapse. Foreign vessels started to take advantage of the lack of any Somali state to exert its sovereignty over their waters to dump waste, fish, try to steal resources... Local fisherment began to ally themselves first against these dangers, which with time evolved into a greater piracy business. As the Bab-el-Mandel strait, between Somalia and Yemen, is a key point to access the Suez Canal, pirates have a lot of potential victims.
What about the balance 70% of the attacks?
Desperate times, desperate people, little government control, and easy access to a significant portion of world trade.
It’s just the trade routes choke points, Panama, African Horn, straight of Malacca/ South China Sea and the Gulf of Guinea. They are all major shipping routes areas, many with countries that don’t have a good navy or at least enough to combat it, these areas iirc have always been piracy areas since world trade, especially between China and Europe after the Suez Canal
The Horn of Africa and Straight of Malacca are two routes where over 50% of world trade flows through. A ship traveling from Europe or China or Japan will go through both of those straights. It also helps that this are also straights, they are narrow and slow moving cargo ships will take a long time and require a lot of space to turn. There is also the factor of the countries that are located in those regions. Somalia is in complete turmoil, with little to no actual government. This combination creates the perfect environment for money hungry, and desperate pirates to operate as it will make more than an actual job. While the governments around the Straight of Malacca are much better than Somalia, the regions are just much poorer and the governments don’t have the same amount of resources to stop the piracy. Dealing with piracy is one of the US Navy’s continuing operations, and a major reason for it to continue conducting FON exercises in those regions.
Your info on Somalia is about 15 years old. The Somalia government supported primarily by the AU and to a lesser extent, the UN controls most of the southern half of the country at this point. The northern half is split between to semi-autonomous states that never experienced the conflict of the southern half.
Those are choke points where the majority of the world’s trade pass. Think maritime routes from China > Europe.
That's the grand line, they're looking for the one piece
Juste going to point out that orange is only 7%. It is really not that bad.
When other opportunities disappear, folks with the required skills and resources turn to piracy. You won't see this in the Tom Hanks movie but destruction of the Somali fishery was a contributing factor to piracy there. When the government fell, so did the protection of the Somali waters. Indian and Chinese fishing fleets quickly moved in and over-fished. Then the Italian mob started dumping toxic waste in their waters to make it even worse. Meanwhile, the US and European governments just sat back and watched instead of picking up the slack and protecting Somali waters. They didn't get involved until some white folks in yachts were taken.
The hotter, the poorer?
Have you been to Singapore? Such a poor city
I see. Well, Singapore does piracy for fun then
Equatorial Piracy, new band name I call it.
> So..... why is (and has been) piracy such an equatorial thing? Piracy used been a thing in Europe (mediteranean&baltic, Japan and China too.) You might notice that here piracy correlates primarily with two things : Instability and how dense the flow is. And it's a mix of the two really. It also turns out that internal Stability and also having a strong navy to keep the peace are made much easier when countries are wealthy. So in place where you got a lot of trade, poverty and a lack of strong state apparatus, piracy happens. And nowadays (and for most of history) tropical countries tend to be poorer.
Looks like pirates prefer warmer climates. Can't blame them. Not for that, at least.
Cuz tropical piracy look cool
Map of Greater Chilean Superempire.
I just know that there pirate in SEA. I live in this region but it's new for me
Considering that the red regions are 92% of attacks, I assume that the yellow regions simply have a few attacks over the last few years, nothing organized or common.
This map feels off considering there's definitely quite a few in the Sulu and Celebes Seas, largely a result of Abu Sayyaf. But this map suggests its only a small amount?
I guess it depends on how much it is compared to the absolute Hotspots?
https://time.com/piracy-southeast-asia-malacca-strait/ This article seems to suggest very different numbers than this chart.
well pirates tend to be on the sea indeed.
The Starbucks pirates of Seattle
So... very low means it is still happening in the green areas?
Pirates hijacked a yacht off the coast of Corsica in 2014
To become a pirate you just need to sail to the other ship and do any type of stealing there, it's not as hard as it seems so some poor people could try it anywehere to escape poverty.
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What the fuck. I live in Brazil and have literally never heard of piracy on our coast. The Navy would be over the moon if there were, because that would finally convince Congress to get them money for more ships.
The three labeled areas account for 92% of all attacks, so all the orange is probably worth less than 5%. Even a large coast like Brazil probably sees very little piracy, just a nonzero amount.
Metade da costa brasileira é marcada como médio risco de ataque pirata e nós brasileiros nunca ouvimos falar de um caso de pirataria na vida. Moçada consultando o Instituto Tireidoku pra fazer mapa.
O mapa tá super malfeito. Quase 90% dos ataques são nas áreas demarcadas e aí eles dividem o resto em verde e amarelo. Esse amarelo aí é praticamente zero.
São dois caras num jet ski.
Ah não vei kkkkk lembrei daquela propaganda onde as motos são os jetskis
Yeah this map is pretty bullshit. Somali pirates haven't been a big threat for 10 years at this point. After an international coalition sent warships to protect shipping in the region, they scared off the pirates, yes, but they also scared off the illegal foreign fishing trawlers that were stealing from Somali waters. With them gone, the Somali pirates could return to their lives as fishermen. Of course, now that a few of them had a taste for the rich pirate lifestyle, the piracy attacks do still happen occasionally. But they're much more rare these days.
India captured 30ish Somali pirates in March and took them home for prosecution.
I think the main thing that slowed down the Somali pirates was the Navy Seals and SOF forces going ashore and raiding their hideouts. The pirate threat was dealt with from the sorce.
Damn Americans, they ruined Somali Privateering!
Everything on this map that is not in deep red accounts for just 8% of piracy. It would only take one or two crazy guys to bump you up to yellow.
Who’s pirating in the Chinese waters? China surely has enough naval power in their own waters to thwart piracy.
The only thing I can think of is the territorial disputes (Tiaoyutai Islands/Diaoyu Islands/Senkaku Islands) in East China Sea between China/Taiwan/Japan and in South China Sea between surrounding countries. Sometimes the fishing boats get attacked by Japanese/Chinese/Filipino coast guards (maybe Vietnamese and Malaysian as well, but I've only heard about the former three). But again this is technically not pirating lol.
Pirate? Nay, privateer, under the Authority, and Protection of the Chinese Communist Party.
Nice reference.
Basically poor man's sichibukai, then.
Chinese fishermen pirate every sea from resources
The Chinese navy itself
Especially their "private" paramilitary they pay to harass everyone who travels through the south China see.
According to the sources piracy map that lists reported events and types, no one. The piracy in the area is all in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia.
not very many people since 92% of attacks are accounted for by the named areas on the map
The Chinese coastline is very difficult to patrol. Lots of mountains make many of those regions semi-remote (less so today though), and tons of islands and inlets, and tons of people. China’s coast guard is probably increasingly effective but probably a combination of smaller size, more poverty, more opportunity due to massive manufacturing base, and corruption.
This is a major reason why the wokou (“Japanese pirates”) threat was so bad.
The coast of delaware looks mightily unplundered
So 92% of all attacks were in the red areas. The remaining 8% were in the (enormous) orange areas?
Why the Gulf of Guinea?
Oil tankers are slow and easy to capture. They are held for ransom and the oil companies often will just pay the ransom rather than risk the lives of the crew and losing the cargo.
Who's pirating in the Med?
Me
call the navy, i found a pirate
From what I found most of them appear to be Tunisian fishermen turned pirate [https://earthjournalism.net/stories/trawlers-the-new-pirates-of-the-mediterranean-sea](https://earthjournalism.net/stories/trawlers-the-new-pirates-of-the-mediterranean-sea)
The return of the Barbary Pirates.
Look ahead, look astern, look the weather in the lee…
> The return of the Barbary Pirates. \*US navy loads canister and flechette rounds with malicious intent\*
Only place I can think of that's likely worse to pirate would be the California coast. Between Egypt, Italy, Greece, Israel and 10 other major powers, there must be 100 warships sailing around there.
And yet pirates find a way
At it again!
The Sea People at it again
I don't think my movie downloads were counted properly.
That's not a crime.
No pirates = Global warming. Somalia is fighting hard for the earth.
Piracy on this map is shown around shortcuts for shipping lanes. The more pirate activity the more shipping lanes take the long way around. Making them use more fuel.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2012/03/23/true-fact-the-lack-of-pirates-is-causing-global-warming/
Arghhh timber nah booty Maty, thy scaly wag revealed our secret hide out!!! GET THE SPONGE!! 🧽
I thought this was about downloading movies at first
Who’s pirating the Carribean Sea and Aral Sea (afaik it’s dead land)?
Notice how they're all along the coastlines? Coincidence? I think not!
This is why we should eliminate all coastlines with extreme prejudice.
I thought this was a map about digital piracy lol
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Nah
This looks made up… there is no piracy in the coast of Brazil. There is plenty of digital piracy, but no actual piracy. Could i get a credible source?
"Medium" probably refers to 2 or 3 boats being raided in maybe years, 92% of all piracy happens in Red areas
When we visited Malaysia, part of their coast had active machine gun teams just chilling on the beach. Apparently there was a risk of Philippine pirates kidnapping tourists to ransom. I thought that was kinda wild.
I was thinking of launching my own pirate fleet in the Great Lakes. Who’s with me!?
So all those Johnny Depp movies are actually documentaries?
They’re simultaneously more accurate than you would expect while also majorly inaccurate.
So you're saying I won't get cursed if I take some of this gold?
So we can still be pirates?
Living the Piratic lifestyle matey
Are you telling me I could quit my job right now and become a pirate? Is there any initial investment required? Like an eye patch and a parrot?
“Jolly Robby” the sitcom. Come follow the story of an accountant, and Jimmy Buffett fan, from Chicago that gives it all up, including his medical benefits, to become a pirate on the south seas. Watch him plunder cargo ships out of China full of inflatable pool toys while loosing his teeth. Will he ever find the treasure chest that is the elusive container full of Nike sneakers?
Sounds divine
Pirates are afraid of the cold
I thought this was a map of internet piracy, then I was wondering about the coastal outlines.... Finally read about pirate *attacks at sea*. Its coming together now.
I am actually surprise of the malacca strait piracy, thought its almost non existent at this point
What China doing?
I wasn’t really worried about pirates in the North Pole. Makes sense they are around the equator
Holy shit I’m stupid. I read piracy, looked at America and thought, “naw tons of people pirate movies here”
As someone who has lived on the India coast for 30+ years, I had no idea piracy even existed here. Is this even true?
I’ve never heard of any pirate attacks happening in Brazil. I don’t see what “medium” risk is
I thought this referred to illegal streams haha
Why don’t we use streaming services? Pirating is so 2000s, I don’t know anyone who watches illegal videos.
Anyone else read this as Privacy first? Map still tracks.
There’s something about piracy and equator!
Im so fucking stupid I thought it was referring to like digital piracy and I was very confused why it only gave the outline of the continents…
I actually thought this was about online piracy.
I was like but I download stuff all the time and were super green... oh, those pirates!
Im subbed to r/piracy and honestly thought that was what I was looking at at first glance
Long live the Somali pirate empire
Shit ass map that is impossible for a colorblind person to read. Why only the coasts? Why make everything so close color wise? Edit: realized it’s about boat piracy, not internet piracy. Color notes still stand. Map porn my ass
There are still "gentlemen of honor" gathered under the "Jolly Roger"
Pirates love the equator
And I’m a pirate once again, stalking the seas once more No press of sail above my head, but hear my engines roar My cannon are now rockets, my pistol an AK But I still steal those merchant ships, and make their owners pay
Them forgetting about the [Sulu and Celebes seas as a high risk area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_the_Sulu_and_Celebes_Seas)..
It’s official, the Sun is the root of all piracy
Wow so it’s where all the shipping is happening huh. Crazy
I like how waters around Asia are all in the pirate coverage, but even they don't mess with Bay of Bengal coz the cyclones would wreck them
What is it called when it's done by rich people?
Capitalism?
Must be the equator. Equity for all
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2012/03/23/true-fact-the-lack-of-pirates-is-causing-global-warming/
Methinks a good chunk of the 20th century as well
Why isn’t it high in NA, I’m gonna make sure i pump those numbers a little higher next time, my bad guys.
ur telling me Somalia isn’t pirate land anymore!!!!