How Does a Modern-Day Pirate Spend a Workday?
The Nature of Piracy jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a04/i1/mg/modernday-pirate-spend-workday-1.1-800X800.jpg’); }); The modern-day pirate, like his predecessors, is a thief, robber and kidnapper. He is also an international criminal, because most of his crimes are committed in international waters beyond the 3- or 10-mile distances that nations claim as their jurisdictions. Most modern-day pirates did not choose piracy as a vocation. They come from poverty-stricken areas with dysfunctional governments or disruptive civil strife where making a living in a law-abiding trade is economically insecure at best and dangerous at worst. Pirates tend to be uneducated, which contributes to their unemployability. Although piracy is a multimillion-dollar business, overhead is high and profits must be split between hundreds of pirates, support personnel and their families. Life on the Open Sea, Mostly jQuery(docum
