Piracy!

Jean and Scott Adam and  Phyllis Mackay and Robert A. Riggle are two American couples out on a sailing adventure of a liftime. They were sailing around the world in their yacht, Quest, handing out donated Bibles to villages in remote places of such countries as New Zealand, the Fiji Islands, Alaska, and French Polynesia. Their trip took a turn for the worse when some Somali pirates hijacked their boat. The yacht is supposedly going to land in Somalia on Sunday (February 20, 2011). It is being said that these pirates have made a huge mistake; they aren't going to get any ransom money which will definitely "threaten their business model." Thankfully though, a Puntland minister is calling for an urgent rescue and says they are going to deal with the pirates "relentlessly and mercilessly."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41672888/ns/world_news-africa/

This whole story almost doesn't seem real! It just blows my mind that right now, people are being held hostage in their own boat by pirates. It's always seemed that pirates are something only in stories and whatnot, but there are actually pirates out there! This story also made me a little sad. Apparently there have been over 600 hostages held by pirates within this last year! It would be scary enough to be out in the ocean so far away from land for so long; having unwelcome visitors would definitely be freaky! I just hope they get rescued soon, unlike the Chandlers who spent 388 days captive! Hopefully it won't come down to killing either, but that may not be so hopeful because the Somalians are pretty angry at Americans for the recent sentencing of a Somali pirate to 33 years in prison.

Quest, the yacht the couples were sailing in