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a 20 year period anda amassed huge fortunes before their reign of terror and piracy was put to an end.

When Florida began the process to enter statehood the Federal Government decided the pirates needed to go. The Florida regional authorities had regarded both pirates and their gang's, as a nuisance, but never really tried to put them out of business. The Feds in conjunction with local Miami ate forces saw the pirates as a threat to national safety and ended their reign of sea piracy in 1821 (supposedly). Yet, pirating has never really ended and today is a dangerous off shore business.

Alas mates, the days of piracy are not over, for this fast lane lifestyle city.

Today pirates still roam the waters around the beaches of Miami and the Coast Guard is constantly setting up "sting operations" to catch them. Quite a few yachts and specialty fishing boats are found empty drifting off shore each year. They are suspected as having encountered pirates who took what they could find then sent the occupants to their demise in the sea.

In October of 2007, the Coast Guard found a 47 ft. boat, which had originally had 4 crew and 2 passengers a drift and they towed it into Biscayne Bay and anchored it at the Miami Beach Marina. The story that unfolded was one of suspense and high seas piracy. It was a tale of murder and robbery, where wealthy "new money" business men, had flashed their money in too many of the wrong places, in front of too many unscrupulous "gangsters" (pirates in another era).

Scenarios like this happen every year off the coast of Miami, where high seas piracy is still alive and thriving in the open ocean. The glitzy high dollar lifestyle of the "New Miami" provides a platform where money and greed breed modern pirates. Like the days of old when the new found treasures of a "new world", brought privateers and adventurers seeking their fortune; treasure no matter its form (dollars, jewels, gold or silver) always brings about devious thieves that wait for their moment to steal, what they believe should be theirs and may be worth risking their life for.

The pirates of Miami have a bold and often bloody past, which embellishes the tales told of their modern counterparts now "sailing the seas" in expensive speed boats which mysteriously disappear and appear as they haunt and hunt the open seas for prey. Be warned visitor sea sailing adventurers, the pirates of our present day take very few captives and leave little evidence as to who they are. Glory is not what they are seeking, booty is what they seek!

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