Month: May 2011
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Decking Pirates
An elderly British couple recounted their scrape with pirates as they sought compensation for their ruined cruise back in 2009. The couple told how they joined other passengers in hurled […]
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Hotting Up
The war against the Somali pirates is heating up. Warships are finding and destroying 2-3 mother ships a week now. Indian and Indonesian warships are increasingly opening fire on pirates, […]
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Kidnap Demands
The Somali pirates holding seven Indian crew of “MT Asphalt Venture” hostage have refused to negotiate with the ship owners and insisted they would engage only with the government authorities. […]
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Swift Response
The vessel “Full City” was captured by pirates yesterday, only to be rapidly freed by a swift naval response. Turkish and U.S. navy ships were thankfully close to the vessel […]
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Sinking Success
The USS Bainbridge, which made headlines for its rescue of American Capt. Richard Phillips from pirates in 2009, has captured another group of pirates and freed 15 hostages off Somalia, […]
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Ransoms Legal
Given the shipping industry’s reliance on ransoms to get ships freed from pirates, there is some relief that a recent court decision has reaffirmed that ransom payments are legal. According […]
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Attack Alert
The latest alert has seen a merchant vessel subjected to piracy attack near position Latitude 14 50N Longitude 066 48E. At 0336 UTC today a merchant vessel was reported under […]
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Special Report
As pirate attacks grow, shipowners take arms By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent POOLE, England | Tue May 3 (Reuters) – Upstairs in a public house on the English south coast, 18 men […]
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Hi-Tech Solution
A US robotics company is working to perfect a “magnetized robot” to climb up ships hulls to spy on pirates. The ReconRobotics system would allow a vehicle to carry a […]
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Long Sentence
A Spanish court has sentenced two Somali pirates to 439 years in jail each for their role in the hijacking of a tuna fishing boat. The two men have been […]
