Pirate season is heating up now

Pirate season is heating up:
U.S. Navy ships have two confrontations with the pirates in less than 24 hours. Most recently, the destroyer Farragut disarmed pirates, and the mother boat sank off the coast of Somalia to respond to an attack on a Sierra Leone-flagged tanker. That was after the USS Nicholas crew came under fire by a group of suspected Somali pirates just before 12:30 am Thursday morning. The incident took place Nicholas hundred miles west of the Seychelles, and the response was Farragut approximately 800 miles northwest of the Seychelles. Navy sources tell Fox when monsoon season ends off the coast of Africa, pirate season heats up. It is easier for the pirates to maneuver and choose their targets. Pirates usually target commercial vessels in the hope that companies or governments will have to pay ransom. As one expert put it, "the pirates, it's a business. " Arkedis Jim, a former counter-terrorism and security analyst with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, who now works at Progressive Policy Institute, said that clashes with the U.S. Navy are either bad timing or a case of mistaken identity. "Many of these pirates, who are a long way from home off the Somali coast may be under the influence of alcohol and drugs. This is how their leaders back in Somalia gets to participate and so aggressive to be," said Arkedis Fox. A naval commander in connection with the piracy problem, warns the attackers are increasingly targeting ships bolder and much further away from the Somali coast. Contribute a better translation.