[LAF] Luxury yachts offer pirate hunting cruises

Mon Jun 29 19:49:09 UTC 2009

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Wealthy punters pay £3,500 per day to patrol the most dangerous waters
in the world hoping to be attacked by raiders.

When attacked, they retaliate with grenade launchers, machine guns and
rocket launchers, reports Austrian business paper Wirtschaftsblatt.

Passengers, who can pay an extra £5 a day for an AK-47 machine gun and
£7 for 100 rounds of ammo, are also protected by a squad of ex special
forces troops.

The yachts travel from Djibouti in Somalia to Mombasa in Kenya.

The ships deliberately cruise close to the coast at a speed of just five
nautical miles in an attempt to attract the interest of pirates.

"They are worse than the pirates," said Russian yachtsman Vladimir
Mironov. "At least the pirates have the decency to take hostages, these
people are just paying to commit murder," he continued.

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