Modern day piracy is alive and well on the open seas.
A recent Navy seizure notice shed light on the litany of illegal goods being trafficked.
"As long as ships go to sea, there's gonna be piracy," a retired Navy admiral told Insider.
"Somewhere in the world today, there's a pirate event," Terry McKnight, a retired Rear Admiral in the US Navy, told Insider.
But the moment they exit territorial waters and make for the open seas, maritime officials are ready to apprehend them, he said.
Persons:
Terry McKnight, McKnight, Matthew Bash
Organizations:
Service, US Navy, United States Naval Forces Central Command, International Maritime Bureau, Combined, Force, Getty, U.S . Coast Guard Maritime Safety, U.S . Navy, Warfare
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Wall, Silicon, yesteryear, Gulf of Oman, Yemen Republic, West, Somalia, Gulf, Aden, Yemen, Africa, U.S