Somali pirates are #1. Anyone in the t-shirt trade might want to print those up. According to the IMB Piracy Reporting Center, the Gulf of Aden or the Indian Ocean accounted for nearly 60 percent of worldwide piracy in the first quarter of 2009. There were 61 attacks off the Somali Coast from in the first quarter of this year.
But only nine of the attacked ships were actually hijacked, a 15% success rate for Somalia's pirates.
Nigeria and Peru were the location of the next highest number of attacks: seven each - though the region of Southeast Asia boasts the second highest number of pirate attacks after Africa.
The fireworks are increasing too. Guns were used in 59 attacks in the first quarter of 2009, compared with 13 in 2008 and 10 in 2007.
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