US seamen are being trained to fend off pirates
(AP)
<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090202/capt.0adf5265c11c4a7a9ed60d63a5fb19f2.fighting_pirates_merb101.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=2w0W4m9TET6PX5.FztBPuQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Ralph Pundt, chairman of the Maine Maritime Academy's marine transportation department, poses on the bridge of the State of Maine, the school's training ship, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009, in Castine, Maine. With an alarming number of tankers and cargo ships getting hijacked on the high seas, the nation's maritime academies are offering more training to merchant seamen in how to fend off attacks from pirates armed not with cutlasses and flintlocks but automatic weapons and grenade launchers. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090202/ap_on_re_us/fighting_pirates)AP - With an alarming number of tankers and cargo ships getting hijacked on the high seas, the nation's maritime academies are offering more training to merchant seamen in how to fend off attacks from pirates armed not with cutlasses and flintlocks but automatic weapons and grenade launchers.</p><br clear="all"/>
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