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To: texasbluebell
On my honeymoon cruise in 1994 off the Florida Keys, our ship stopped and picked up a bunch of Haitians from a raft. Guess there is some kind of law that required them to pick up people in distress rather than call the Coast Guard. Maybe these pirates should have just sent out an S.O.S. to the cruise ship....
76 posted on 11/06/2005 8:19:28 AM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: operation clinton cleanup

The RPG on one of those little boats might have given them away though. If the cruise ship crew spotted it in time, that is...

The high seas are still ruled by Barbary Pirates, it seems!


80 posted on 11/06/2005 8:21:44 AM PST by texasbluebell
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