Care to know about the weird yet exciting adventures of the rich and famous? The monsoon season has put the Somali pirate attacks on oil and chemical tankers on hold. They are expected to start up again around the end of August. Luxury ocean liners in Russia are offering pirate hunting cruises aboard armed private yachts off the Somali coast. Wealthy consumers now pay around $5790 everyday to guard their yachts from dangerous waters so they can save themselves from the pirates and help in pirate hunting.

During an attack they can retaliate with grenade launchers, machine guns and rocket launchers. A squad of ex Special Forces troops can also be employed to save them from the plungers if the yacht owners can afford it. The yachts that travel from Djibouti in Somalia to Mombasa in Kenya are the most prone to these attacks so these are the ones which offer pirate hunting cruises. The pirate hunting cruises deliberately travel close to the coast at a speed of just five nautical miles in an attempt to attract the interest of the pirates.

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