1.   Attacked by pirates, destroyed in battle, ravaged by storms, many hundreds of vessels sank to form a hidden museum off-limits to even the deepest divers.

2.   On the coast, pirates attack Red Sea shipping.

3.   This would explain the pirates attacking the Ark. God is not in the details here.

4.   Pirates have attacked a Lebanese ship off the Somalian coast for the second time in two weeks, a spokesman for the company that owns the ship said Tuesday.

5.   Pirates attack ship off Somali coast, authority in Malaysia says.

6.   British coast guards alerted international authorities early Monday after receiving a distress call from a cargo ship attacked by pirates off the east African coast.

7.   British coast guards alerted international authorities early Monday after receiving a distress call from a cargo ship attacked by pirates off the west African coast.

8.   French navy officials acknowledged that pirates had attacked a ship off the coast of Somalia and that the warship Floreal had sent a helicopter to the scene.

9.   In the South China Sea, pirates have attacked commercial vessels.

10.   Thirty people drowned when a small ship sank off the coast of northeastern Somalia after reportedly being attacked by pirates, a regional warlord said Tuesday.