Pirates Attacking Cruise Ships 2017

Paul Szoldra Jul 1 2017.

Pirates attacking cruise ships 2017. The waters of Pirate Alley are now policed by task forces staffed from international navies which seems to have put the pirates off a. However the threat he said was real and the ship must be prepared for a pirate attackJasinski wrote. The shipping industry cannot rely on the navies and traditional law enforcement to protect them from pirate attacks and to hold pirates accountable.

Pirate attacks may seem like an outdated relic of sailing but two cruise lines have instituted preparation plans in case modern day pirates try to board one of the luxury ships. It is only a matter of time before Somali pirates hijack a cruise ship and. 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.

Thome of eTurboNews ETN raises two disturbing scenarios. Later that month Oceanias Nautica thwarted an attempted attack by pirates while sailing through the Gulf of Aden. In 2009 MSC Melody was attacked by pirates but some of the passengers who spotted the skiff approaching managed to throw some of the pool furniture at the pirates to stop them boarding the ship.

Many of them had deserted their posts aboard naval or merchant ships or. There are no plans in place to rescue the passengers when this happens. The article is entitled Somali Piracy.

By John Honeywell 9 August 2017 745am. Pirates cruised the Caribbean Sea and the North American coast searching for likely targets. The tanker named Aris 13 sent out a.

In 2005 when she was known as the Seabourn Spirit she was attacked off yje East African coast by Somali pirates. Sea Princess passengers were shrouded in darkness for 10 days as the ship prepared for a pirate attack one traveller has claimed. Pirates fired a rocket-propelled grenade and machine guns Saturday in an attack on a luxury cruise liner off the east African coast the vessels owners said.