What is a pirate s life like on a day to day basis?

Photographer Veronique de Vigley follows a group of Somali pirates on their daily lives, providing a true picture of a day in the life of a modern pirate.

Abdul Hassan carried a rocket on his shoulder, and behind him sat his accomplices in a small boat. Founded in 2005, the pirate group they belong to is called the Central Regional Coast Guard, which now has 350 pirates and more than 100 speedboats.

Hassan has a nickname in this pirate group: "The Man Who Never Sleeps".

As night fell, the pirates returned home with the "fruits" of the day.

Hobbia Beach Shop. The store provided the pirates with drinking water, food, and cigarettes. Whenever a pirate is in need, he will give the shopkeeper a **, and the shopkeeper will then drive a car with supplies to the pirate. The shopkeeper sells ** to pirates, which is twice the normal market price.

Due to the unstable security situation in Somalia, all foreign tourists who travel to Somalia are forced to pay high salaries to hire armed men as "bodyguards" to escort vehicles and people from attacks by unknown armed men. Photographer Veronique de Vigli hired 15 armed men with loaded guns.

Galkayo is located in the center of Somalia, near Hobia and Bodland, and also near Ethiopia. Despite its strategic location, the city is very poor, with high unemployment and rampant violence. Pirates enjoyed a relatively high social status and used the looted money to build large houses and businesses for themselves.

Now they have become the embodiment of the dreams of many Garkayo people.

The history of piracy can be traced back to the Lukans in the 14th century BC, and the ancient Egyptians recorded their aggression against Cyprus.

of the attack. It has been said: since the day the ship was invented, pirates have appeared.

But the precise definition of piracy must be linked to the word "piracy". In the English language, the word piracy has many different meanings, and today some of the meanings of the word itself are almost useless, and the earliest use of the word piracy was before the 17th century. The word pirate (pirate, peirato) was introduced to the ancient Romans around 140 BC.

The historian Polybios used it for the first time. The Greek historian Brudak gave the earliest clear definition of piracy around 100 AD: he described pirates as those who illegally attacked ships (at sea) as well as coastal cities (ports).

Piracy first appeared in the Iliad by the blind Greek poet Homer

and in Odyssey, there was still no uniform definition of the word piracy for many years afterward. Norway from the 9th to the 11th centuries AD.

Marauders were not called pirates, they were called "Danes" or "Vikings" in medieval England (14th-17th centuries).

Another popular word for pirate means "pirate". The most closely associated interpretation of piracy with the modern vocabulary appeared in the 18th century: "sea outlaws"; This means that you can kill them anytime and anywhere, even if you're not a soldier, and you may even get a bounty or even a knighthood.

The earliest forms of international law also included laws and regulations on the elimination and prevention of piracy. This is due to the fact that most of the pirates loot outside the borders of their countries.

Sometimes** gave pirates the right to go to war on behalf of the country. The most popular form is for the state to issue a license to the owners of private ships (pirates) to attack enemy ships on behalf of the king, known as privateers. But in fact, many privateers are captured by enemy nations and tried as illegal criminals in defiance of their permissions.

Have you seen a scene from Pirates of the Caribbean: on a Royal Navy ship, the officers in the dragon suit drink in the cabin to order the ragged sailors to hurry up to drain the water from the cabin, although they all hung up after half a minute, but this is perhaps the most authentic part of the movie. Not many of the sailors who worked like coolies actually came on board voluntarily - except for the ignorant teenagers with a keen heart and the poor people who believed in the navy and thought that they would really be given the equivalent of two months' signing bonuses.

Soul match, I'm waiting for you on the other side.

Ad. At that time, sailors were a scarce resource: both the merchant and naval fleets were growing rapidly, but with this there was a shortage of manpower.

It has been estimated that even if the whole of England were to be fit, they would still only be able to meet two-thirds of their needs, not to mention that staying healthy at the time was a matter of considerable luck.

Lost his freedom, he was called by pirates every day. Actually, there is nothing too painful.

For example, what did he suffer, he lost his freedom, and he was called by pirates every day. Actually, there is nothing too painful.

Love, I used to think that if I have you, I would have the whole world, I thought that as long as you said it, I would never break my word, for a long time, I already wanted to break free, and now I have nothing left except memories, and I am used to lighting a cigarette and waiting for it to kill a person by itself For several days, I sat on the balcony and waited for the dawn to be dark, and the neighbors picked up the cloudy belly.

Yes. The area of activity of modern pirates has not changed much compared to history, and is still concentrated on the route from Africa to Asia. Generally speaking, there are five main areas of activity for modern piracy, which are the coast of West Africa, the waters off the Somali peninsula, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the coast of the Bay of Bengal, and the waters of Southeast Asia as a whole.

Pirates have been rampant at sea since ancient times, and there are quite a few now, such as the Somali pirates. Generally pirates are poor, few rich people are pirates, they all live in groups, a village lives together, some are pirate bosses, when they want to go to sea to commit crimes, they temporarily go to the poorer villages to gather people.

In the 16th century, the Caribbean Sea became a "paradise" for pirates, many of whom were authorized by their own kings to rob the seas. At the same time, the numerous small islands in the Caribbean Sea provided them with good hiding places, and the Spanish fleet transporting jewels became their main target of attack.

Yes, there is one in the famous Somalia. I think they all have dry food prepared before they set sail.

It's fake, the pirates in the movie are fake.