Cruise Ship Attacked By Pirates 2013

A CRUISE ship was attacked by two boatloads of weapon-wielding pirates and one passenger caught it on video.

Cruise ship attacked by pirates 2013. On a cruise a few months ago before Covid 19 was the most dangerous threat on the high seas a band of pirates in several speed boats hurtled at full speed towards the cruise ship as we sailed off the coast of Somalia. This is the Star Breeze cruise ship. Riding in two small speedboats the pirates fired at the ship with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades but the crew drove them off with a water hose and a long range acoustic device.

If you think pirates only exist on attractions at Disneyland think again. On the 2 nd day of the Dubai to Southampton cruise on-board the Queen Mary we were informed of security procedures that would be taking place tonight due to going through pirate waters. In 2020 there was an increase of pirate attacks against ships worldwide compared with the previous year.

A video that the Carnival corpo. By Claudia Cuskelly 1513 Sun Sep 17 2017 UPDATED. 18 rows Seabourn Spirit a luxury cruise ship carrying 210 crew members and passengers was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia.

A year later in April 2009 MSC Cruises former MSC Melody experienced perhaps the most infamous cruise ship pirate attack. According to reports in Japanese and Croatian newspapers the Japanese-owned but Maltese-flagged educational cruise ship Oceanic came under attack off the coast of Yemen sometime during the week between 3 and 9 May 2010. MAHE Seychelles Pirates who attacked a cruise ship off the coast of Somalia grinned as they aimed grenade-launchers and machine guns at the deck.

The attack failed and soon the pirates were detained by sailors of the American destroyer USS Gonzalez. 12 Riding in two small speedboats the pirates fired at the ship with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades but the crew drove them off with a water hose and a long range acoustic device. While 162 ships were attacked by pirates in 2019 the number of ships attacked grew to 195.

Two Cruise Ships Brace For Potential Pirate Attacks. According to Oceania president Bob Binder eight shots were fired on Nautica by the pirates. In 2005 the cruise ship Seaborne Spirit was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia.