There is a 9000V electric fence especially for the maritime market made by a company in The Netherlands. I am regulary surfing the net to find information about these kind of systems but it's seems to be a too small market for company's to serve at the moment anyway.. As a captain/owner i am looking into this system to install on my new to built 12000dwt cargovessel. Offcourse this will not completely solve the problem if the attackers use a RPG which can blow the cables to bits and a free entry is then garanteed. But i think this system is usefull to stretch time when a attack is underway and i hope it might withhold the attackers to come on board. 
Weapons on board is not an option and will only cause more bloodshed. Although me and my crew have had discusions about weapons on board, in the end we all agree that this is not the solution as the attackers will become more violant.

Reasonable dipomacy with pirates? Ya, sure. Sounds great Neville. Where do we sign up to give away our stuff to these poor starving pirates? Because its clearly our success thats causing them to starve. We should pay.

The only thing that will stop this is to increase the risk for the pirates. One or two warnings from the ship then the rifles come out. Something like a sea marshall squad to ride on ships passing through the worst areas would seem prudent as well.

The bleeding hearts of the world are deeply appreciated by all Pirates. I'm sure when they fire their RPGs at ships, they have no intentions of injuring anyone. These poor Pirates are just looking to EXTORT money through kidnapping and threats of blowing up the ship and crew - as they have stated in their extortion DEMANDS.

Time to get in touch with reality. The only good Pirate is a very dead Pirate. If these scumbags really wanted to change their lot in life they'd work like everyone else or move to a place where life is easier and get a frigging job. Piracy is not the answer, it's a despicable crime against innocent people and these criminals should die for their crimes. You don't negotiate with terroriists including Pirate terrorists. You vaporize their worthless asses.


Let's put this crisis in some perspective. Only a fraction of 1% of the ships going through that area are captured. The crews that are captured are treated as valuable commodities not slaughtered whimsically.

While this is piracy, those calling for death sentences must be the same sorts that make bombing runs over Iraq and Afghanistan. The poor are already dying from starvation and disease killing more of them doesn't really discourage them form trying to get enough to live on. It makes them more desparate and the lives of their kidnapees more at risk. 

While their is a need for a solution it lies in reasonable diplomacy and policing not simple minded answers from simple f***s.

Actually Paul, what's needed is a gunboat -- a warship designed to protect commerce from lightly-armed threats such as piracy. These haven't been built for many decades, mainly because navies had so many ships they could always detail some overkill platform to do the job.

Updating the gun boat gives a low draft, turbine-driven possibly fibreglass boat armed with miniguns, small missiles (adaptations of land anti-tank weapons, since a naval small missile is currently an oxymoron), and a few wire-guided torpedoes. Enough space for a stick or two of boarding party, with larger craft providing the helicopter warehousing.

I assume Paul is a Ninja.

these pirates need to be killed on the spot the ships should have serface to air missiles to blow up thir ship

After bombing the Pirate ships, tie a rope around any surviving Pirates throat. Tie the rope to the stern and toss him over board for shark bait. It won't take long for the other Pirates to get the message. Shark bait is a universal international language.

...considering that salt water conducts electricity quite well.

Surface-to-surface missles will do the job nicely however.

It's time to start blowing Pirate ships out of the water. It won't take but the sinking of more than a half dozen Pirate ships for the scum to get the message. 

Now that worldwide military ships are moving into the area, they should just bomb these Pirate ships one after another and kill every single Pirate onboard. Take no prisoners. These scumbags are attacking innocent, defenseless mariners. There is no place in the world for these scumbag Pirates, so take them out now.

Am I missing something or does a 9000 Volt Electric Fence around a boat sound like a bad idea!