A dhoni resembles a dhow, a traditional Arab sailing vessel. Port Saeed holds some of the dhow cruises and small shipping boats in Dubai. Bagamoyo is a center for dhow sailboat building. Fleischer has his warship ram and sink O'Flynn's Arab dhow loaded with poached ivory. Sambuk, a type of dhow, was traditionally used for pearling trips. The ships were able to catch the drug-smuggling dhow while operating in the Arabian Sea. The VBSS team detained the pirates on the dhow without conflict. The dhow was the ship of trade used by the Swahili. Massawa is home to a naval base and large dhow docks. In Dubai, the team finds a dhow named the Al-Shama to take them to Bombay. While patrolling just off the coast of Somalia, "Topaz" encountered a captured dhow. They headed back to the Iranian dhow. All these vessels have common elements with the dhow. The local population is involved in fishing, dhow construction, trade and services. Historians are divided as to whether the dhow was invented by Arabs or Indians.