PIRATES might be associated with eye patches, swords and cannons – but the reality of modern piracy and its bloodshed is much more terrifying. Heavily-armed anti ...

Modern day piracy is alive and well on the open seas ... "Somewhere in the world today, there's a pirate event," Terry McKnight, a retired Rear Admiral in the US Navy, told Insider.

There has been a sharp rise in the number of people killed at sea by pirates, this according to the (IMB) piracy reporting center in Malaysia. The IMB indicates that 30 mariners were murdered ...

Pauly says pirate vessels account for a substantial ... the country’s own fishing industry but often took part in modern-day slavery, luring Indonesian workers onboard under false pretenses.

In 1638, the British established a colony on the southern coast of Roatan. Officially, the settlers of Old Port Royal were directed to harvest timber from the forested slopes of t ...

Today's seafaring smugglers may have traded the swashbuckling swordplay of yesteryear for modern-day missiles and mines, but piracy remains alive and well on the open seas. "Somewhere in the world ...