Are there still pirates that roam the seas today?

While piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries might have been about pulling trade goods off of ships, piracy today is about holding those ships hostage until their owners cough up a ransom. Sometimes this involves trade ships (often oil tankers) and corporate owners, sometimes yachts and individuals' family members. read more

Not the way that Blackbeard did, but generally speaking, yes. Piracy is still a problem, and it probably always will be as long as there are poor marginalized people living on coasts with access to guns and boats. read more

sulu and celebes seas Piracy across Asia fell overall in 2016, but kidnappings rose in the waters between Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, where the al-Qaeda-linked group Abu Sayyaf is active. read more

Pirates roamed the seas in the 15th and 16th centuries, and in some places still roam the seas today. read more