I assume Slog has already chronicled the Somali pirate attack on a U.S. cruise ship. Today the passengers are speaking:

“We didn’t think they would be cheeky enough to attack a cruise ship,” passenger Wendy Armitage of Wellington, New Zealand, tells The Associated Press.

Oh yes they would be. Also, the Daily News, ever helpful, reminds that these pirates use “grenades, not swords,” and look like Africans, not Jack Sparrow.

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5 replies on “Today in Pirates”

  1. I’d like to know more about this snazzy “long-range acoustic device” they used, presumably a standing-wave thingie. It sounds like it didn’t work very well.

  4. I’m no naval expert so maybe this is a dumb question… but how do a bunch of guys in a motorboat get on a cruise ship? Are there ladders or grappling hooks or something?

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