According to the IMB 2023 report, there were 65 occurrences of piracy and armed robbery against ships in the first half of 2023, up from 58 events in the same period in 2022.
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In 2005, Seabourn Spirit was about 100 miles off the coast of Somalia when pirates fired AK-47 machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in an attempt to highjack the ship. They failed. An April 2008 pirate attack on Le Ponant, a French luxury sailing vessel, was more successful.
Manta rays, also known as devilfish or sea devils, were feared as much as sharks, for sailors believed these sea creatures could attach themselves to a ship's anchor and drag her under the waves to Davy Jones' Locker.