By Jon Bowermaster
Every day dozens of ships - carrying cargo, crews, even passengers - are picking their way carefully along Somalia's coastline, attempting to move from the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea via the Gulf of Aden. These are currently the most dangerous waters on the planet: In the first three months of this year there have been more than one hundred successful pirate attacks and hundreds of just-unsuccessful ones.
My friend Dennis Cornejo - marine biologist, undersea filmmaker extraordinaire, lover of flora and reptiles - is aboard a passenger ship (sans passengers) making its move through the gulf, paralleling the Somali coastline. If successful, the trip should take five to six days. If unsuccessful, the next we hear from him may be as a hostage, the ship being held for ransom. Follow his
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