Pirates Attacking Cruise Ships 2017

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.

Pirates attacking cruise ships 2017. A retired US Navy admiral is very concerned about terrorists attacking cruise ships. It is only a matter of time before Somali pirates hijack a cruise ship and. In 2020 there was an increase of pirate attacks against ships worldwide compared with the previous year.

Several piracy attempts involving passenger ships have taken place in the waters where the Sea Princess conducted its drill according to the International Maritime Organization. Thome of eTurboNews ETN raises two disturbing scenarios. 1510 Mon Aug 7 2017.

By John Honeywell 9 August 2017 745am. Patrolling the open waters is different from patrolling on land crime is easier to perpetrate harder to detect and harder to prevent. In that year 75 other vessels also had a brush with pirates.

At the height of Atlantic world piracy around 1720 some 2000 pirates were attacking ships and threatening trade. There are no plans in place to rescue the passengers when this happens. In 2005 when she was known as the Seabourn Spirit she was attacked off yje East African coast by Somali pirates.

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. Posted in Pirate Attacks.

Pirate attacks may seem like an outdated relic of sailing but two cruise lines have instituted preparation plans in case modern day pirates try to board one of the luxury ships. By Jim Walker on December 6 2009. The ship was taking oil from Djibouti to the Somali capital Mogadishu.