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Luxury yachts offer pirate hunting cruises

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Luxury yachts offer pirate hunting cruises


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.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3374702.html?menu=news.quirkies
 
Probably a hoax.

I couldn't find any references to this outside of ananova.com besides other internet forums.  I also have a hard time believing that any company charging £3500 a day for boat rides is going to be so cheap that it has to charge £12 a day for a gun and box of ammo. Also, Djibouti is not in Somalia as the article describes. It's a country beside Somalia.

That said, it is one way to deter pirates...
 
Googled it, found many websites reporting it including the national post http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=1731374 . It says that the ananova.com paper was the one reporting it but i assume that the National post did some sort of fact check before posting it on their website.
 
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