Eli5: how do pirates board/rob big ships?

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When you see massive transit ships they must have a huge amount of investment in security and they’re mostly steel, they’re so tall and big, must have quite a few crew on board, and surely have lockable containers inside, and the pirate ships are motor boats with a handful of individuals, how does that little boat with a few people take over such a large steel container with so much money behind it?

EDIT: such interesting replies! My question is now, eli5: with everything you all have said, why aren’t there more pirate ships?

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Well if cargo ships can’t have guns, then they should build them with traps, that can be activated from the bridge. blast doors or something to seal the bridge off from the rest of the ship. if they get boarded they can trap them in a segment of the ship and haul there sorry arses to port for arrest.

Me personally i’d be cool if there was a pump system that would fill said segment with sea water to drown them. then once they’re all dead there would be a little hole in the bottom of the outward facing wall that would open drain the water out back into the sea. then they unseal the segment and toss there carcasses into the ocean for the sharks to chew on.

Oh but thats cruel and unusual, and highly Illegal eeh, yeah getting sold into slavery is the same danm thing so its fair.

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