[Flycatcher]

five suspected pirates are now in custody in connection to attack.

Why are they alive?

Seriously.

In a sane world, they would all be shark food right now.

[Stonewall Jackson]

On May 5, 2010 a band of 11 Somali pirates boarded the Russian tanker MV Moscow University. Realizing that his ship was going to be captured, the captain sent a distress signal, had his crew hide all of the food and water, and then barricaded everyone in the engineering compartments.

Twenty hours later a security team from the Russian destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov retook the tanker, killing one of the pirates in the process. The remaining ten pirates were then cast adrift, some 300 miles off the Somali coast, in an inflatable boat with food and water but no navigation equipment. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, they never reached land and likely died at sea.