Pirates – Oh MY! Nov
29 2013
We’re doing all of our diving off of Mahe, out of Dive the
Seychelles diving shop which is quite nice, well run, good divemasters, etc.
etc. We are enjoying it a lot. There are other dive shops on this island
plus diveshops on most of the other islands with good places to dive. However, the interesting thing that my hubby
read in the up to date guide book that I just purchased before we came, was
that diving has been discontinued on some of the farther out islands. For reasons of PIRATES! Yikes and heave ho! When you look at the east coast of Arica and
find the Seychelles Islands, we are not terribly far from Somalia which as
everyone who reads a newspaper or hears the news these days is well aware of
their penchant for harboring and helping pirates attack any boat that meanders
into their waters. I think they have
started going a bit further afield possibly.
The guidebook naturally doesn’t give any gruesome details and just makes
this simple one statement declaration – no diving on far out islands because of
pirates. Wow. I kind of assume it is because they have
probably lost a few tourists and divers.
I’m fine with staying close to large settlements and main islands were
there are a lot of people. The diving is
still good and I don’t think I’ll miss anything by having to worry if my boat
will still be there when I surface or if it will be full of pirates.
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