Last week we saw seven Danish sailors pay 2 million Euros in ransom to Somali pirates. A few days later a French skipper was shoot dead in front of his wife as pirates took her hostage. She was unusually lucky as she was rescued by a warship soon afterwards. Sailors are big business for pirates, so why do they keep sailing straight in to their self made prisons?

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Sailing in to the hands of pirates