OK, maybe this is real, I dunno, but tell me that it doesn’t sound like one of those implausible WWII cover-stories for some other third-party intelligence-gathering mechanism.

About 620 miles from Somalia, with no means of phone or radio communication, they placed a message in a bottle and threw it out through a porthole into the sea.

Just hours later the message was picked up by a Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel, the RFA Fort Victoria.

It led to a team of Royal Marines storming the container ship and arresting the pirates in October last year.

via BBC News – Somali pirates caught by message in a bottle.