Pirates Attacking Cruise Ships 2017

It is only a matter of time before Somali pirates hijack a cruise ship and.

Pirates attacking cruise ships 2017. The shipping industry cannot rely on the navies and traditional law enforcement to protect them from pirate attacks and to hold pirates accountable. The ship was taking oil from Djibouti to the Somali capital Mogadishu. Posted in Pirate Attacks.

The cruise ship was able to fend off the pirates with water cannons. Later that month Oceanias Nautica thwarted an attempted attack by pirates while sailing through the Gulf of Aden. At the height of Atlantic world piracy around 1720 some 2000 pirates were attacking ships and threatening trade.

Patrolling the open waters is different from patrolling on land crime is easier to perpetrate harder to detect and harder to prevent. Pirate attacks may seem like an outdated relic of sailing but two cruise lines have instituted preparation plans in case modern day pirates try to board one of the luxury ships. 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.

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. 1510 Mon Aug 7 2017.

Smaller pirate gangs. Are Cruise Ships. 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.

Such an attack on a cruise ship. Online Resources for Maritime Piracy and Somali Pirates Marine Insight October 2017. The ship sailing crew-only was hijacked.