JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Pirates in the Caribbean, or at least an apparent act of piracy that stretched on for two days, seems to have been resolved. <\/p>\n
New photos obtained by Action News Jax show Bahamian police aboard a cargo barge that was taken over by roughly 50 people off the coast of the Bahamas on its way from Jacksonville to Puerto Rico, according to the vessel\u2019s owner. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Action News Jax obtained video showing several small vessels alongside the Brooklyn Bridge cargo barge about three miles off the coast of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n The video, Action News Jax is told, was shot by the suspected robbers and looters and sent to the vessel\u2019s owner, Trailer Bridge, as proof of the ongoing incident.<\/p>\n \u201cModern-day piracy looks very different than it did back in the day. As you pointed out, they\u2019re smaller, faster boats,\u201d said maritime attorney Adam Deitz <\/p>\n The act of potential piracy in the Caribbean is an incredibly rare sight, according to Dietz.<\/p>\n More photos obtained by Action News Jax on Friday, taken aboard the barge, show emptied out cargo containers once full of household supplies and food.<\/p>\n \u201cA large commercial ship being commandeered by local pirates in the Caribbean is very unusual,\u201d said Deitz.<\/p>\n Trailer Bridge told Action News Jax its vessel was boarded on Thursday after the tug boat pulling the barge experienced a tow wire failure that grounded the barge two days prior.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n The company contacted the US Navy, Coast Guard, and local police, but Bahamian officials initially told the company they would not engage, \u201cbecause they feared possible violence\u201d.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear based on photos and videos obtained by Action News Jax whether the suspected robbers and looters are armed.<\/p>\n But Deitz said, generally, acts of piracy are not carried out with the intent of physically harming crew members.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s based in money, not necessarily violence for the sake of violence, but they do resolve badly sometimes,\u201d said Deitz.<\/p>\n Another photo Action News Jax obtained Friday showed the barge boarded by Bahamian police, and the smaller boats that once surrounded it are nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n Deitz said oftentimes piracy is a symptom of destabilization within a country, so he hopes this is a one-off occurrence and not the start of a larger trend.<\/p>\n The shipping lane between JAXPORT and the Bahamas is a critical lifeline to Puerto Rico, making the stakes incredibly high.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are things that ships can do in the meantime to still use the area while they\u2019re figuring it out, but this is early. I guess we\u2019ll see,\u201d said Deitz.<\/p>\n Action News Jax reached out to the US Coast Guard and asked whether it was involved in the response and what that response may have looked like. <\/p>\n We\u2019re waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Pirates in the Caribbean, or at least an apparent act of piracy that stretched on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,1539,25609,347,28,348,116,351,118,117,30632,349,30633,30634,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-47011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-bahamas","tag-cargo","tag-cbs47","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-looters","tag-northeast-florida","tag-pirates","tag-pirates-of-the-carribbean","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}