Are Cruise Ships Safe From Pirates

While pirates may be something considered the stuff of fairytales rather than real life it has recently been revealed that all major cruise lines have serious protocols in place to protect.

Are cruise ships safe from pirates. Two cruise ships sailing through pirate-infested waters are taking precautions to make sure everyone on board is safe. Aside from the distant possibility of an onboard fire hitting an iceberg or getting raided by pirates cruise ships seem entirely safe. There have been no pirate attacks on cruise ships in at least five years but despite this cruise ships have not stopped taking precautions when traveling in areas previously known for pirate.

To The Point Cruise Line is excited to offer the ultimate adventure cruise along the pirate-infested coast of Somalia. Piracy is defined as the practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea typically involving violence. A vessel was attacked off Liberia but there have been no incidents to the north of this and Senegal and the Cape Verde islands remain relatively safe.

The number of attacks has grown fivefold since the late 1980s from 50 a year to more than 250 in each of. The 10000-ton cruise ship registered in the Bahamas. MAST Ltds risk map of the Caribbean shows incidents of marine crime and piracy or attempted piracy since 2014.

I had always thought that pirates were a thing of past. Mr Pellegrino said all MSC cruise ships were staffed with Israeli security agents because they are the best trainedThis is not the first attack on a cruise liner. We are no longer referring to the Jack.

Somali pirates are not at all above attacking cruise ships most cruises dont dock at Mogadishu but even if they were you wouldnt want to visit violent Aden which has been the recent. Thanks to your interesting post my misconception is cleared. Stay safe against pirates draw the curtains cruise passengers told.

Piracy does still happen -- in 2005 a cruise ship off the coast of Somalia was hit with grenades in a failed hijacking attempt or as the FBI calls it an attempted vessel conversion. The system is a collapsible fence which can be folded and kept safe when not in use. Saturday Silver Spirit competed its transit of the Gulf of Aden a region notorious for pirates who attack and hijack ships with incidents recently escalating.