Modern-Day Pirates

Modern-day pirates as well as pirates of the golden age arm themselves profoundly. Pirates use guns, knives and more recent modern pirates attack with bombs and rocket launchers. They threaten and attack crewmembers, take hostages and in some instance, abandon their victims. Pirates sometimes handover the ship's staff to the attack vessel and leave with the entire ship and its cargo. In some cases, crewmembers have died at the hands of these plundering modern-day pirates.  They also take benefit of current technology by monitoring communications among ships and ports to determine the greatest targets and plan of attack.