In this eye-opening account, respected author and seaman John C. Payne lifts the veil on modern piracy, detailing hundreds of very real and frightening accounts up until now. The recent hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates merely brought worldwide attention to an issue that has been simmering for years.
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Pirates are an age-old menace. They are also a useful index of the advance and decline of civilization. Sea-roving brigands infested the waters of the ancient world until the Roman Empire stamped them out. With the fall of Rome and the onset of the Dark Ages the pirates returned. They thrived for centuries with the connivance of England's Queen Elizabeth I and other monarchs who were willing to tolerate a level of disorder and barbarism if it meant that hired privateers like Francis Drake would cut them in on the loot. Then in the 1800s the British Royal Navy, with help from the Americans, shut down piracy's perennial havens, including the Barbary Coast, the Horn of Africa and the Malacca Straits. For almost 100 years pirates survived only in children's literature and the movies. Now pirates are back, driving speed boats and armed with cellphones and AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. These modern Blackbeards are the detritus of Third World failed states, empowered by a declining U.S. Navy presence since the Cold War and an international community that has lost interest in enforcing the laws of the civilized sea. Today, as in medieval times, travelers and businessmen and especially cargo ships are learning that after they set sail they'd better watch their backs. John C. Payne's Piracy Today ... will help them chart a safe course and remind them of what happens if they don't. Mr. Payne's comprehensive survey looks at piracy as an international phenomenon that includes places such as Nigeria and Brazil little covered by the media. (The Wall Street Journal)
Piracy Today: Fighting Villainy on the High Seas provides a powerful account of modern piracy: a billion-dollar business that takes advantage of inadequate international law and under-staffed ships to make a profit. Gangs armed with AK-47s and small rocket launchers have been demanding - and receiving - big ransoms and stealing valuable cargo: Piracy Today documents the problem and comes from a seaman who offers accounts from real life. Nautical collections need this! (Midwest Book Review)
While pirates in adventure tales are often daring and heroic, modern-day piracy is a very grave matter. Piracy Today by John C. Payne gives a no-holds-barred look at very real and frightening accounts of modern attacks, such as the April 2009 hijacking of the container ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates. There was a second unsuccessful hijacking attempt of the same vessel in November of the same year.
Payne details how these pirates are armed with AK-47s and small rocket launchers, and how they take advantage of international law, lax enforcement and understaffed ships. The hardcover book includes maps and black-and-white photos of notable pirate attacks, as well as a final discussion on what can be done to stop this threat to every sailor.
Payne is a professional marine electrical engineer who has spent 35 years afloat on merchant ships and offshore oil industry vessels. He is a qualified maritime safety auditor and marine surveyor as well as a pleasure cruiser, and is currently working in Asia and the Middle East on various professional maritime and offshore projects. He has published more than a dozen books, including The Marine Electrical and Electronics Bible... (Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal)
Piracy Today: Fighting Villainy on the High Seas provides a powerful account of modern piracy: a billion-dollar business that takes advantage of inadequate international law and under-staffed ships to make a profit. Gangs armed with AK-47s and small rocket launchers have been demanding - and receiving - big ransoms and stealing valuable cargo: Piracy Today documents the problem and comes from a seaman who offers accounts from real life. Nautical collections need this! (Midwest Book Review)
While pirates in adventure tales are often daring and heroic, modern-day piracy is a very grave matter. Piracy Today by John C. Payne gives a no-holds-barred look at very real and frightening accounts of modern attacks, such as the April 2009 hijacking of the container ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates. There was a second unsuccessful hijacking attempt of the same vessel in November of the same year.
Payne details how these pirates are armed with AK-47s and small rocket launchers, and how they take advantage of international law, lax enforcement and understaffed ships. The hardcover book includes maps and black-and-white photos of notable pirate attacks, as well as a final discussion on what can be done to stop this threat to every sailor.
Payne is a professional marine electrical engineer who has spent 35 years afloat on merchant ships and offshore oil industry vessels. He is a qualified maritime safety auditor and marine surveyor as well as a pleasure cruiser, and is currently working in Asia and the Middle East on various professional maritime and offshore projects. He has published more than a dozen books, including The Marine Electrical and Electronics Bible... (Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal)
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16. Juni 2010
Von Charles W. Strang
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This book is current and anyone who is thinking of traveling in any of the danger areas highlighted in the text should read it. I have served in the Army throughout the world and think the protection of the traveling vessels is essential. The owners are not doing their job in protecting cargo and it seems to me it is nothing but an insurance scam taking place in East Africa. I think every ship should be armed and the crew trained to fight off the attackers. This book doesn't advocate that point of view but I do. It seems to advocate the current policy of paying and bartering cash ransoms for the vessel, crew, and cargo. We will live to regret such a policy. These pirates are able to adopt a current and changing policy to meet each occasion. I say use and teach the crew to resist the pirates and ncontinue on their way.
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Outstanding update of this subject.
16. August 2011
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John Payne has done an outstanding job of bringing up to date the growing menace of piracy. His overview, analysis, and specifics of this world-wide problem are first rate. If you have read John Burnett's "Dangerous Waters" of 2002, and now read "Piracy Today", you will have a very clear understanding of the changes this criminal activity has seen over the past 10 years. The progress of modern piracy into the realm of business ventures is fightening, and Mr.Payne makes clear the threat it poses to world trade on a truly colossal scale.
It is disturbing that the public is largely unaware of this menace. Perhaps, now that Tom Hanks has contracted to do a motion picture about the Maersk Alabama incident of 2009, modern piracy will get the attention it should have had for at least the last 10 years.
It is disturbing that the public is largely unaware of this menace. Perhaps, now that Tom Hanks has contracted to do a motion picture about the Maersk Alabama incident of 2009, modern piracy will get the attention it should have had for at least the last 10 years.
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Nautical collections need this
18. Juli 2010
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Piracy Today: Fighting Villainy on the High Seas provides a powerful account of modern piracy: a billion-dollar business that takes advantage of inadequate international law and under-staffed ships to make a profit. Gangs armed with AK-47s and small rocket launchers have been demanding - and receiving - big ransoms and stealing valuable cargo: PIRACY TODAY documents the problem and comes from a seaman who offers accounts from real life. Nautical collections need this!
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