The magazine Ocean Navigator often reports the official statistics for these events. Some time in the last 2-3 months they had some statistics. As I remember (?) most of the problems were with commercial cargo ships, and not many rec boats. HNick&Sherri (hnmorgan@tasc.com) -----Original Message----- From: Thataway@aol.com <Thataway@aol.com> To: martyc21@spis.net <martyc21@spis.net>; trawler-world-list@samurai.com <trawler-world-list@samurai.com> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 1:48 PM Subject: Re: Pirates?dangers snip