By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism

How often does a journalist get to use that headline without referring to knockoff DVDs? In fact, this photo of Tanzanian-flagged fishing trawlers Mavuno I and Mavuno II meeting up with a U.S. Navy ship after being released from pirate control Nov. 4, 2007, in the Indian Ocean, was the only Getty photo on pirates I could find that didn’t include Johnny Depp. That ship fell victim to Somali pirates — the usual suspects also fingered in today’s caper:

“The French navy is tracking a luxury yacht and its 30-member crew seized by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden off the Somali coast.


Troops are on alert, French authorities said on Saturday, but added that there has been no contact with anyone on board.


…Christophe Prazuck, a spokesman for the French armed forces, said the ship was ‘hugging the eastern coast of Somalia’ and was ‘being constantly followed’ by a French naval vessel.


‘It is observing what is going on board the Ponant and is showing that we are present and constantly following what is happening to our nationals.’


Late on Friday, Francois Fillon, the French prime minister, said the defence and foreign ministries were working to obtain the release of the hostages, adding: ‘We have relatively large military means in the area.’


…Pirates seized more than two dozen ships off Somalia’s coast last year.


It has prompted the international maritime bureau to advise sailors not to travel closer than 200 nautical miles to its shore.”

Because with these pirates, there aren’t any peg legs or parrots — but there are real weapons and there’s palpable greed.

(Photo by Edward L. Pruitt/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)