blog

http://graves922.glogster.com/false/

Glog

http://graves922.glogster.com/

Current Event on the Water

Somali pirates have raided, ransomed, or stole nearly two hundred million dollars since 2008. Fox News guesses that it is because of a constant change of government powers and policies that have led to this. Somali pirates have been hijacking ships from many countries, notably the U.S., England, Spain, and South Korea. One recent incident involving a South Korean ship being hijacked led to the torturing of 15 South Korean sailors on camera to incite the South Koreans to pay them their ransom. The incident led to South Korean commandos storming the ship, killing eight of the pirates and capturing five. Amazingly, the whole crew survived this ordeal with only minor injuries, all save the captain, who was shot in the stomach by a pirate when the commandos stormed the ship. He recovered a few weeks later and is fine now. Many countries, mainly the U.S, Britain, in addition to other countries that need to protect their interests in shipping past Somalia, have now stepped up their patrol of the Somali waters and under an agreement with the Somali president. Port controllers are now advising that any ship passing the coast of Somalia should now have an escort to discourage pirates from attacking. Despite these attacks, the Somalian coast still remains one of the most active waterways in the world.

Shark Attacks

Types of attacks: 2010- 73 nonfatal attacks, 6 fatal attacks
Stats: Shark attacks have increased 10x since the 1900's, but have decreased over the past ten years
Location of most attacks: US- Florida

postable

dont shoot the alcatraz