Why Are We Obsessed With Somali Pirates? #shorts

Uh..this misinformation as i worked as a Maritime private security contractor. I worked innthat area for two years.

According to the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB), there were 120 incidents of maritime piracy and armed robbery against ships in 2023, up from 115 in 2022. However, the number of attacks has dropped significantly in the late 2010s after the UN led an international effort to combat Somali piracy. Between 2016 and 2022, the number of attacks on the Somali coast fell to eight. In 2022, IMB found 115 attacks, ranging from unarmed burglaries to gunpoint hijacks. From January through October 2023, there were 99 attacks, which is about the same as 2021.

You look like someone took a big dump and decorated it 😂

Thank you for this information! With the way they're portrayed in media, you'd think there's rampant piracy off the horn of Africa.

Because Somalis were actually hijacking ships, taking hostages, fighting off raids and destroyers from an interation joint task force, actually killing people etc, instead of stealing cargo from ships and running awaya like other small time "pirates", the somalis at their peak were responsible for almost all majore pirate attacks and cost the worlds shipping companies billions of dollars in lost property, ransoms, insurance hikes, and naval security operations, the fact is Somalis not only revived modern day piracy, but also inspired other pirates across the globe. They are without a doubt based, and take the title pirate.

Tell me you don't know ANYTHING about somali piracy without telling me, there is a suez canal wich 80% of ALL WORLD TRADE sails through. Somali pirates have been attacking merchant ships exponentially untill the piracy rate has been dropped to almost 0 by a coalition of different nations who patrolled that area with military ships. Because of that the "hunting grounds" of the somali pirates has been moved to indonesia. But since that is not in our operational waters and our merchant ships don't regularly go through there we don't sail there with military ships too..

And on top of that, our ships has long left the somali area due to the piracy there being almost eradicated.

No more since seals smashed 3 at once

Leftists all at the same time coming out with the same muddy watered narratives defending.. you guessed it brown and black criminals.. im shocked

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Except that you forget to emphasize how prevalent and frequent they were pre 2020. They obviously backed down a lot since then due to all the countermeasures. This is an ignorant perspective you are applying here.

just finsihed watching Somali Pirates , where a dude just went there and Ship Piracy is booming way more than ever before. Educate yourself.

Welp, for me, speaking of modern day pirates the first ones that come into my mind are Malaccan strait pirates (the ones near Singapore and Malaysia in this Short).

(I think of Somali pirates too but the Malaccan strait ones come first 🙈)

. marshall d teach

yeah as we grow older we need to take a step or two back and look at the big picture about things that we are doing and or not doing and accordingly

Or maybe because China does (most of the) illegal trade with eastern Africa and does not report the incidents when it happen, no?
Alternatively, I'd love to hear how many modern pirates got into crypto and crypto scams.