Monsoon wedding season amid pirate fears

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Updated July 27, 2009 11:32:48

This month, the seafarers of the small shipbuilding town of Salaya - on the western coast of India - return en masse from sailing between India, Dubai and Somalia, to sit out the monsoon.

For the next months they are preoccupied with just two things: repairing their ships for the next season and weddings. But with as many as 15 dhows hi-jacked by pirates last year, this year the sailors and their wives worry about the men returning to Somalia. It's the most lucrative place for them to trade, but are the risks worth it?

Presenter: Richard Orange
Speakers: Azghar Ali Seyyid Ali Shirazi, priest; Amin Hasan Sumbhaniya, groom; Imran Anwar Sanghar, captain; Aziza Anwar Sanghar, wife of captain

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