I guess the Love Boat’s lyrics weren’t quite like that, but this is no love boat. The popular TV show from the 1980′s called the Love Boat had a theme song that sang “Come Aboard. We’re Expecting You”. I guess this is the message the French Navy could have said to some Pirates on the high seas. It appears some Somali Pirates mistaken the ship at night time and thought they were seeing a cargo ship. They probably thought a ship that size would have some good stuff on it, so in the middle of the night they attacked the ship with light firearms and tried to overtake the ship. However, there was one big problem. The ship they saw on the ocean was no cargo ship and didn’t have people on board that were going to hand it over so easily. It was a French Naval ship and they had little problems fending off the pirate intruders. When the pirates saw their mistake, they tried to flee, but after a 1 hour chase on the waters, the pirates were captured.

I guess to put in some perspective of how these pirates messed up; would be to think of a group of bank robbers trying to rob an Army base on land and thinking it was a bank. As funny as this story is and the humilation and trouble these pirates will be facing, this is another sign that pirates still exist on the high seas in the 21st century. Off the coast of Somali is where most of these pirates come from and it’s become a breeding ground for this tiny nation. More steps need to be done to stop these guys that think they can just rob ships as they pass by their coastlines. No nation really hasn’t took the lead in stopping these pirate attacks. It seems each country just deals with it when it’s their ship, goods, or crewmen that are involved. We need the bigger countries of the world to sit down and come together on a strategy to stop Somali Pirates from attacking ships in this area of the world. Sitting around and waiting for the next attack is not the way to handle this and some one needs to step up and settle these view points on Somali grounds. No one should have to fear the next time they decide to take a cruise and no company should be transporting goods across our oceans with people like this in the world.