Pirates Aboard!: 40 Cases of Piracy Today and What Bluewater Cruisers Can Do about It

German sailor and novelist Hympendahl describes examples of attacks on pleasure cruise boats, not commercial vessels. Most of the pirates, he says, are loners, often fisherman or small and loose-knit gangs along the coast who are driven by poverty and desperation to share a few moveable goods of wealthy westerners who are vacationing where they struggle to survive. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR