Cruise Ship Attacked By Pirates 2017

It is good that cruise ships have some armed force and necessary arrangements for safety from pirates.

Cruise ship attacked by pirates 2017. The NAUTICA was on a 32-day cruise from Rome to Singapore when it was attacked on Sunday November. A CRUISE ship was attacked by two boatloads of weapon-wielding pirates and one passenger caught it on video. Taken from one of the ships windows the footage captured a boat of at least four Somalian pirates wielding weapons.

Unknown no ransom paid On 13 March 2017 Aris 13 was hijacked by pirates in two skiffs a few miles off Alula the northernmost town of Somalia in Puntland. In 2020 the type of ship most attacked by pirates was a bulk carrier. The Seabourn Spirit had been bound for Kenya when it was attacked by pirates armed with grenade launchers and machine guns on Saturday about 100 miles off.

In fact this was the last of the recorded pirate attacks on cruise ships. This latest pirate attack is not the first on a cruise ship. 18 rows On 13 March 2017 Aris 13 was hijacked by pirates in two skiffs a few miles off Alula.

The ship was taking oil from Djibouti to. 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. All the statistics quoted in the article relate to incidents in Gulf of Aden AKA Pirate Alley as it is the most treacherous stretch of water in terms of piracy.

It was the first hijacking of a large commercial vessel since 2012. However pirates have attacked a broad range of vessels with varying results. But where you sail also impacts the risk of hijack or attempted hijack.

Product tankers were targeted by pirates. I always used to thought that pirates were in ancient days but yes I can remember some incidents from recent past about attacking of cruise ships. Oh it looks so scary when I think of getting attacked by pirates while on a cruise ship.