If y'all desire to avoid pirates acre sailing the 7 seas thence y'all should steer clear of the equator. Around the globe pirates appear to last most active off the coasts of countries that are unopen to the equator. You tin thought this for yourself on John Nelson's 40 Years of Nautical Piracy interactive map.
xl Years of Nautical Piracy is a oestrus map which visualizes where pirates convey been most active unopen to the the world over the final xl years. The map uses information from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to demo the most unsafe maritime locations inward price of marine piracy.
The map uses equal expanse hexagons to demo the frequency of incidents across the globe. You tin click on an private hexagon on the map to run across how many private incidents at that topographic point convey been inward that area. If y'all zoom inward on the map thence the private incidents volition last shown every bit unmarried dots on the map. If y'all lead an private point thence y'all tin read a description of the piracy event. Once y'all commencement reading these descriptions y'all before long realize how seriously unsafe piracy tin last to body of body of water vessels.
You tin read to a greater extent than nearly the map as well as thought a video on how the map was made on the Esri Blog's 40 Years of Piracy post.
