Pirates may not be as prevalent as they once were, but they can still be a nuisance on a cruise ship. This is how ships use modern tech to combat pirates.

Bermudians were given the chance to tour a modern-day pirate ship over the weekend. John Paul Dejoria, an anti-whaling vessel owned by the conservation group Neptune’s Pirates, had dozens of ...

Typically, modern-day pirates plan ransom schemes against container ships and oil vessels. Queen Anne's voyage started in January as the ship departed Hamburg, Germany. The ship then embarked on ...

the Black Pearl is merely a fictional ship inspired aesthetically by historic merchant ships from centuries ago, with a more modern vessel underneath. It wasn't until the fourth "Pirates of the ...

Cruise Critic Chris Gray Faust said this situation isn’t uncommon. Certain areas around the world, notably around 50% of modern pirate attacks, occur in East Asia and the Pacific. Other pirate ...

The early modern world was unkind to common people ... Such “hard usage” was rarer aboard a pirate ship. Mutinous, well-armed men did not readily submit to the lash, nor did they accept ...

While modern pirates have access to more powerful weapons when compared to the pirates of old, they are still restricted by a similar set of limitations. If they can't board a ship, they can't ...