Seychelles Cruise – Your Perfect Pirate Adventure… With Real Pirates

Have you visited Seychelles before? Yeah, me neither. They say it’s a paradise on Earth and from what I’ve seen in pictures or videos, they might as well be true. Several smaller cruise lines operate ships that sail around Seychelles offering unforgettable adventure. With Seychelles Cruise I can imagine you would get to experience the islands and see it from the sea as the sun sets behind the crowns of weary coconut palm trees. But that’s not all, there’s more to Seychelles Cruises. You know how they run Wild West train rides in North American, where you pay for a ride in an old train and it gets attacked by outlaws simulating train robbery? Well, if Wild West is not your thing, but you like Pirates, perhaps you could take a Seychelles Cruise and get a pirate attack on the cruise while you’re enjoying the wind in your mug aboard a fine ship. The only difference is that this pirate attack is not simulated. These are actually real Somali pirates. Yeah, the notorious Somali pirates who modernized ancient “art” of old school piracy. Brought to you in contemporary form courtesy of these fine armed men of Somalia.

It looks like robbing tankers is a risky pirate business for the Somali pirates, so they started focusing on cruise ships that sail around the paradise closest to Somalia – Seychelles. In a recent pirate attack on a Seychelles Cruise MSC Melody the photo of which is above, it was passengers who noticed pirate shit back tailing their cruise liner and alerted captain. Captain then radioed S.O.S. (probably not, but definitely used some means to let authorities know) and the cruise ship was saved by a Spanish warship which then escorted it to the North of Aden. That was however preceded by fire from automatic weapons the Somali pirates were armed with. Cruise ship crew skillfully initiated avoidance maneuvers and escaped the fire leaving all 1500 passengers unharmed.

According to Seychelles’ president’s office, French forces captured three Somali pirates operating around the shores of the Seychelles. This arrest was followed by arrest of nine Somali pirates earlier this week all of which are believed to have been involved in an attack on Italian cruise liner. All the arrests were made within Seychelles Exclusive Economic Zone.

Looks like Frenchies have it covered. As tourists, we can plan our vacation in Seychelles and worry not about pirates. 12 were arrested so far. Didn’t even take too long. Should any other dare to disturb the waters of Seychelles Exclusive Economic Zone, I’m sure more French forces will get on their ass and capture them like their predecessors.

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Further Reading:

• Bloodthirsty Navy Seals on Mindless Killing Spree Murder Somali Pirates
• David Hasselhoff Dressed up as a Pirate – Captain Morgan
• Attempted Assassination of Kurt Westergaard by a Somali Muslim

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