Sorry to be a 'wet fish' but while they pay ransom's, more ships get hijacked! Don't know what the answer is though!

I know. I have been bitching about that for a year. Why not allow ships to have armed security and blast away when approaching. They can dam well see them coming and know their intentions. Would only take for a few of them to be sunk before word got out that world is sick and tired of it and retaliating.
Either that or steer ship at high speed right at them and they'd get message. Really sickening when they give in to them.

It is a drop in the bucket compared to what has been taken from Somalia by corporate pirates.