Life on board a hijacked ship

This came my way from Wired Magazine, in an article about the Somali pirates homemade hijacking videos. It is an interesting glimpse into life on board a hijacked ship sitting just off the coast of Somalia. A lot of waiting, quiet, and still. There is an odd sense of a kid in a candy store with this video, and I’d imagine other videos like it. For most of the pirates, merchant ships bring living conditions and modern amenities far greater than they have ever seen.   Although I wonder how this is changing with the number of ransoms that have been paid thus far.  It seems very few reporters are on the ground in these remote coastal towns of Somalia to judge how piracy has changed the lives of the inhabitants.  This particular video was taken aboard the M/V Yasa Neslihan, a Marshall Islands flagged vessel hijacked on October 29th 2008 and released on Jan. 6th 2009 with the crew unharmed after the ransom was paid of course.