Pirates Attacking Cruise Ships 2017

British passengers aboard a luxury cruise liner are recovering after the ship was attacked off the coast of Africa by pirates firing a rocket propelled grenade and machine guns.

Pirates attacking cruise ships 2017. 1510 Mon Aug 7 2017. The ship was taking oil from Djibouti to the Somali capital Mogadishu. When pirates attack an armed confrontation is likely and.

An article today by Wolfgang H. Crew members were ultimately rescued and the ship was recovered after a ransom was paid. This is the Star Breeze cruise ship.

Patrolling the open waters is different from patrolling on land crime is easier to perpetrate harder to detect and harder to prevent. The waters of Pirate Alley are now policed by task forces staffed from international navies which seems to have put the pirates off a. Observation and protection of ships from pirate attacks by non.

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. In more than a decade there have been only six reported incidents of pirates attempting to attack cruise ships and the most recent was more than four years ago already. 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.

Seabourn Spirit a luxury cruise ship carrying 210 crew members and passengers was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. 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. Pirates hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia on Monday the first successful hijacking of a commercial ship by Somali pirates since 2012.

There has never been a successful pirate attack on a cruise ship. Later that month Oceanias Nautica thwarted an attempted attack by pirates while sailing through the Gulf of Aden. Online Resources for Maritime Piracy and Somali Pirates Marine Insight October 2017.