Super-Desperate Pirates in the Gulf of Aden

UPDATE: NINTH VESSEL SEIZED IN 12 DAYS, situation out-of-control.

It was bound to happen. High-tech pirates with bazookas, satellite telephones, high-speed motorboats were going to continue showing up somewhere. But we thought it would be in the next James Bond movie. Who knew they could board and overcome some of the world's largest super-tankers so easily off the coast of Somalia? The latest count is now 7 tankers in 12 days. Desperate Somali pirates on drugs are taking over the high seas off the coast of east Africa with no end in sight. So for anyone seeking more new meaning and on-the-job adventure here's a great new vocation idea: working super-tankers as security specialists who can protect these huge cargo carrying behemoths from this new kind of international thug ring of pirates. You can report for work by following the map below.
Anarchy and extreme poverty always go hand-in-hand and no where in the world are these two bedfellows more dominant than in Somalia and other countries like Sudan on the coast of East Africa. Anarchy and political thuggery--mostly from Arab Muslim insurgents---are creating a desperate situation for the hungry, impoverished people of this region. That in turn is creating this desperate form of piracy on the waters in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia.