abstract:Pirate havens are ports or harbors that are a safe place for pirates to repair their vessels, resupply, recruit, spend their plunder, avoid capture, and/or lie in wait for merchant ships to pass by. The areas have governments that are unable or unwilling to enforce maritime laws.
Having repelled attacks byrivalpirate-radio operators, in 1978 the towerwas temporarily captured by aGermanbusinessmanintent onusing theplace as a tax haven.