Pirate shoot at Cruiseliner - Cruiser outraces bullets, leaves pirates eating wake

Not sure how 8 bullets are going to stop a Cruiseliner. That said, if these guys hijack these sea-moving apartment blocks, those hostage situations could get pretty ugly.

Why don't the international navies send a few subs to the area...

clipped from news.yahoo.com It is not the first time a cruise liner has been attacked. In 2005, pirates opened fire on the Seabourn Spirit about 100 miles (160 kilometers) off the Somali coast. The faster cruise ship managed to escape, and used a long-range acoustic device — which blasts a painful wave of sound — to distract the pirates. NAIROBI, Kenya – Pirates chased and shot at a U.S. cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by international warships, a maritime official said Tuesday. The liner, carrying 656 international passengers and 399 crew members, was sailing through the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden on Sunday when it encountered six bandits in two speedboats, said Noel Choong who heads the International Maritime Bureau's piracy reporting center in Malaysia.