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What is 9 latest? >> reporter: wolf, murky still. no word on the fate of the americans who were kidnapped. as for the ship, murky statements out of the nigeria. some say they don't know where the ship is, from the government spokesman. some suggesting it may be in an eastern port. u.s. officials telling us they have good reason to believe the ship is in port, but will not say where. security concerns, of course, still about the crew in nigeria. the key issue, of course, is not the location of the ship, but the location of the two americans that have been taken captive, wolf. >> will the u.s. c...

Guinea off the coast of nigeria. this has become a prime hunting ground for pirates. the most memorable pirate attack on an american is now a hit movie. captain richard phillips was kidnapped by somalia pirates and held hostage for five days at sea before he was rescued by navy s.e.a.l.s. but those nigerian pirates will pose a more of a threat. >> you got to understand it's dangerous out in the gulf of guunea. >> reporter: acts of piracy have decreased pirate attacks off the coast of nigeria have skyrocketed 30% this year. >> this is not a hollywood movie plot. piracy and hijacking put innocen...

Americans, the captain and the chief engineer in this pirate attack yesterday taken off the boat. at this hour, no word on where they are. this ship, let's go back to the photo of it, the "sea retriever" was going around in these west african waters resupplying oil installations. this is a very rough piece of territory off the coast of nigeria, very violent. it has suffered a lot of pirate attacks. let's just look at some of the numbers on how the violence has grown. last year alone, 62 attacks and if you look over the previous two years, in 2011 and 2010, a steady rise. a lot of the violence ...

This is a very tough neighborhood, wolf. pirate attacks, violent attacks have been rising steadily for the last couple years. last year alone 62 attacks, and you can see the previous two years, the same thing, a rice in attac attacks. this is in such contrast to what's been going on in east africa. we kept hearing for years about pirate attacks in somalia. well, that's down now, because security has xwroismd so much off the coast of nigeria. in fact right now there's a maritime exercise of several militaries in the region and include the u.s., trying to learn to improve maritime security. wolf...

Threatened before being rescued by u.s. navy seals who shot three pirates but the lawsuits allege it was captain phillips who steered his ship into harm's way against the will of his crew before he sailed into the waters notorious for pirate attacks. suits are not against captain phillips personally. they're actually against the ship's owners and the crew's employers. the crews' attorney says they begged captain phillips not to go so close to the somali coast. just two days before the ship was taken, two other vessels, as you probably remember, had come under pirate attack in the gulf that pro...