Frank Taylor of the google earth blog and Doug Caverly from webpronews write about google maps and google earth being used to plot recent ship piracies.

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/11/20/google-maps-used-to-mark-pirate-attacks
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/11/somalia_piracy_map_in_google_earth.html

ICC Comercial Crime Services map:
http://www.icc-ccs.org/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=visualization&controller=visualization.googlemap&Itemid=89