In case you haven't heard: The pirates who seized a Saudi oil tanker received roughly $3,000,000.00 in exchange for letting the ship go. They took their loot and fled, releasing the tanker.
According to this article in the Telegraph, "dozens of pirates" left the tanker. One small getaway boat carrying eight of the pirates capsized in a storm. Five of those eight pirates drowned, and all of the eight pirates' portion of the $3,000,000.00 ransom was lost at sea.
Fascinating.
CNN also has information on this, but its article says that the getaway skiff had five pirates aboard, four of whom drowned.
UPDATE: CNN is somehow talking to a surviving pirate, who is providing some kind of first hand account of the mishap.
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All i know is that i'm glad i'm not one of the surviving pirates. He's never going to hear the end of it back at the hideout!
Funny you should mention a surviving pirate. Have a look at the CNN link in my UPDATE to the post.
Kinda suggests, yet again, that firing guns in the air is not so good as a way to express excitement...
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