Cruise Ship Attacked By Pirates 2013

This was a surprise as I didnt even think of pirates when I booked the cruise and under normal circumstances this probably wouldnt have.

Cruise ship attacked by pirates 2013. Oceania Cruises premium cruise ship attacked by two skiffs hiding amongst fishing vessels while traversing the Maritime Safety Protection Area on the Gulf of Aden. Pirates at Sea on the QM2. The remnants of a rocket-propelled grenade RPG shown after striking the cruise liner Seabourn Spirit during a Nov.

They are seeking damages for physical and mental injuries and. If you think pirates only exist on attractions at Disneyland think again. Cruise Ship Passengers Tell of Pirate Attack.

According to the publication two skiffs approached the ship whereby the crew proceeded with evasive measures. A CRUISE ship was attacked by two boatloads of weapon-wielding pirates and one passenger caught it on video. In 2005 the cruise ship Seaborne Spirit was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia.

The pirates fired on it with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. 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. A video that the Carnival corpo.

The crew members sued Maersk Line Ltd the operator of the vessel and Waterman Steamship Corp the crewing company which hired them. This is the Star Breeze cruise ship. The attack failed and soon the pirates were detained by sailors of the American destroyer USS Gonzalez.

Two Cruise Ships Brace For Potential Pirate Attacks. 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. Seatrade Insider is reporting that Oceania Cruises vessel Nautica averted a pirate attack while in transit of the Gulf of Aden Sunday morning.