Nov 21 2008Yarrr, Doubloons!: Live Pirate Map Shows You Where The Plundering Is Going Down
Pirates, they used to wear cool hats. Now? Not so much. But you can still check out their exploits on the International Maritime Bureau's "live piracy map" (based on Google Maps). You know, to see where the booty's being plundered.
Just drill down by using the zoom slider, and click on a flag to see what kind of crime took place. All are labeled with the type of ship, as well as whether the pirates successfully hijacked it or merely boarded. Certain areas, like this one off the coast of East Africa, are pirate paradises. The seas around Singapore and Malaysia are also packed with pirates.
You know where else is packed with pirates? My pants. Isn't that right you little swashbuckling bastards? Haha, just kidding -- they're crabs. I still gave them pirate names though. Stop it Captain Clawhands, that tickles!
Hit the jump for one more map and a link to interactive version in case you can't find the one I cleverly hid in the text of the post.
Live Piracy Map
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Live Piracy Map Reveals Seas Are Still a Pirate's Paradise [io9]
Thanks to Pegeye Pete, the fiercest pirate with a walnut eye.
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Reader Comments
1. Petrus - November 21, 2008 1:55 PM
weird o.o
2. Madgame - November 21, 2008 1:55 PM
Hey Geekologie writer can you please post your pic so we can see the man behind the genious writing
3. Moose Knuckle - November 21, 2008 1:56 PM
Is there a marker for the exploits of Steve the Pirate?
Arrrrgh!
4. Daisy - November 21, 2008 1:57 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is a lot like the scene where Max and Baja stream a video of Baja fellating a microphone while eating Del Taco when they discover bacon flavored ice cream was stolen from their lego safe. After some guitar hero on an exercise bike Max takes pictures of his genitals and posts them on the wheel of fortune chatroom with hopes of scoring some acid or ecstacy. This all happened right after Baja shaved her cooch and made star wars puppets out of them, which Max later laced with some cocaine he scored from his crotch pictures online & fed them to his furbie.
5. Moose Knuckle - November 21, 2008 2:00 PM
And also I was third.
6. Moose Knuckle - November 21, 2008 2:00 PM
Oh and fourth, because I'm Daisy. Also 5th, and maybe sixth.
7. LSDiesel - November 21, 2008 2:00 PM
Daisy, now you're comments are just stupid and LONG.
8. Moose Knuckle - November 21, 2008 2:01 PM
Yup I was sixth, and now maybe seventh too.
9. Moose Knuckle - November 21, 2008 2:01 PM
Nope not seventh, that was my good chum LSDiesel.
10. Moose Knuckle - November 21, 2008 2:02 PM
FUcking clone stop posting! Jesus you're worse than a black man!
11. Daisy - November 21, 2008 2:04 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is like the map Max and Baja had in the movie NEver Back Down. Every time Baja went down on Max they would put a pin in the map.
12. Moose Knuckle - November 21, 2008 2:05 PM
Haha I keep posting.
13. Moose Knuckle - November 21, 2008 2:06 PM
Okay for reals I'm going to work now... for the rest of the weekend whoever posts as Moose Knuckle will be my CLONE. Later fags.
14. BlackSamTX - November 21, 2008 2:13 PM
Have you heard about that new pirate movie coming out?
It's rated ARRRRRRRRRR!
15. joe - November 21, 2008 2:15 PM
hah this is good.....
http://www.playusout.com
16. Alex - November 21, 2008 2:16 PM
Sheesh, yes Daisy, it's fake, the life is fake, I'm fake you're fake. AALLLLL our shadow are wrong, because it's like in never back down when the guy is fake and his shadow is wrong. Or when in the wheel of fortune, all the shadow was all like, spinning around like a fake faker faking f***ing F***!!!!
17. Thumperchica - November 21, 2008 2:20 PM
@3 - He's busy playing Dodgeball...
GW - You Rock My Socks, Y'arrrggghhh AWESOME!
18. Thumperchica - November 21, 2008 2:42 PM
*giggle*
"I wear an eyepatch - but I only rock it when I'm f***ing plundering YO!"
Best Tag Line Ever!!!!!!!
19. Davo - November 21, 2008 2:52 PM
Yarrrr, I've been searching for booty my whole life......
20. Sharpie - November 21, 2008 2:52 PM
Ugh, why can't we seriously just send over a couple jets bomb the stupid sons of a bitches and take our oil back. oooooooooo yea thats right i forgot, the USA are a bunch of pussys. so in that case tey deserve the oil for being such bad asses unlike we are.
21. Dirty Paul - November 21, 2008 2:57 PM
I can't believe you people aren't respectful. Rememberhow many people the PEWPEWPEW pirates have killed. Lets respect them and get mad at the people who make fun.
Its the only way.
22. ilovejb - November 21, 2008 2:58 PM
The buccaneer was a picturesque fellow
23. Carl "C-Rex" Everett - November 21, 2008 3:06 PM
How much did the pirate pay for corn?
24. McGloin - November 21, 2008 3:08 PM
Your map has left off the white house, because theres a nigger in there plundering that with his 'homeboys' getting jiggy with his 'hoes' all up in the oval office.
Sigh, this submission of power to the negros makes me not want to live any more. Way to go America, every time I log on this god forsaken (awesome site brah a++++ I love all the anticlown media sites) shit hole I see more news and more proof that a rotten nigger is destroying America and the worst bit is, you submissive white guilt ridden wimps not only voted him in but you want to suck his black cock to rid yourself of the guilt of slavery (progress by labour in my opinion, if a nigger has a brain the size of a walnut then why is it discrimination to put him to use in the best role for him? Which is slavery if you didnt know! Giving him a pencil and note pad and taking him out if the cotton fields is like giving a 4 hour lecture on physics to a dead squid) the Jew's have put onto the white race.
25. Thumperchica - November 21, 2008 3:12 PM
@24- Yar a jackass
26. PLEEEZE! - November 21, 2008 3:20 PM
K, so now my pirate dictionary needs to be updated. CLEARLY there are only U.K. accents in all of piratedom. Now I require that gentleman who recently helped me troubleshoot my satellite network to say "AYE" in his middle eastern accent for yes and "NAY" for no. It will be difficult chatting with Habib or Achmed now without picturing them decorated with eyepatch and cutlass. Ah, it's a sad sad day for the arab nation. I suppose india is included there, but they are such a nice docile people they couldn't possibly be pirates! ;)
27. blp - November 21, 2008 4:32 PM
1. Destroy Daisy. (no explanation needed)
2. Destroy Somalia. They can't behave in a civilised manner in their home country or at sea and when they move to the UK they stab anything that moves.
28. jon - November 21, 2008 4:49 PM
google phone clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoDWh5Eezp0
29. movie fan - November 22, 2008 12:21 AM
crazy stuff
30. KING - November 22, 2008 7:08 AM
JAU IS GAY
31. Elmo - November 22, 2008 2:18 PM
they gonna get da kracken all up in those fool's gril
..wait, are they from Africa or L.A.? I saw pics on the news, that's all....
@Carl "C-Rex" dude- damnit, I would LOVE to know
32. Carl "C-Rex" Everett - November 22, 2008 3:23 PM
Arrrrrrrrr a buck an ear
Wanna guess how much the pirate paid for piercings?