Title: Pirates
Kellym - July 27, 2004 02:19 AM (GMT)
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2004/07/27/256.html
Tuesday, July 27, 2004.
Latter-Day Buccaneers Continue to Spread Fear
By Sean Yoong
The Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Pirates slaughtered 30 seafarers worldwide in the first six months of this year -- the highest toll in more than a decade -- and governments need to boost patrols in hot spots at sea to curb the violence, a maritime group said Monday.
The 30 killings reported globally from January through June compared to 16 during the same months last year and came despite a decline overall in pirate attacks, the British-based International Maritime Bureau said in a report released by its piracy watch center in Kuala Lumpur.
"Reports of violence against seamen have risen," IMB Director Captain Potenggal Mukundan said in the report. "Law enforcement agencies should thus increase their presence in these hot spots to prevent the loss of lives and injuries."
The casualty figures were the highest for the first half of any year since at least 1993, when the IMB began keeping records.
Fifteen deaths occurred in Nigerian waters, where pirates armed with automatic weapons have launched 13 attacks so far this year on commercial ships plying the coast and passenger ferries.
"The increased ferocity and the number of attacks are linked to law and order problems ashore," the IMB said. "The [Nigerian] authorities are under pressure and unable to respond adequately to attacks at sea."
Most of the other fatalities were in Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Philippines.
Nevertheless, the total number of pirate attacks worldwide fell to 182 so far this year from 234 in the first half of 2003, helped by decreasing attacks in places such as India and the Gulf of Aden.
That figure did not include another 20 attacks in the Straits of Malacca, which run between Indonesia's Sumatra island and peninsular Malaysia.
Tuesday, July 27, 2004.
Latter-Day Buccaneers Continue to Spread Fear
By Sean Yoong
The Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Pirates slaughtered 30 seafarers worldwide in the first six months of this year -- the highest toll in more than a decade -- and governments need to boost patrols in hot spots at sea to curb the violence, a maritime group said Monday.
The 30 killings reported globally from January through June compared to 16 during the same months last year and came despite a decline overall in pirate attacks, the British-based International Maritime Bureau said in a report released by its piracy watch center in Kuala Lumpur.
"Reports of violence against seamen have risen," IMB Director Captain Potenggal Mukundan said in the report. "Law enforcement agencies should thus increase their presence in these hot spots to prevent the loss of lives and injuries."
The casualty figures were the highest for the first half of any year since at least 1993, when the IMB began keeping records.
Fifteen deaths occurred in Nigerian waters, where pirates armed with automatic weapons have launched 13 attacks so far this year on commercial ships plying the coast and passenger ferries.
"The increased ferocity and the number of attacks are linked to law and order problems ashore," the IMB said. "The [Nigerian] authorities are under pressure and unable to respond adequately to attacks at sea."
Most of the other fatalities were in Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Philippines.
Nevertheless, the total number of pirate attacks worldwide fell to 182 so far this year from 234 in the first half of 2003, helped by decreasing attacks in places such as India and the Gulf of Aden.
That figure did not include another 20 attacks in the Straits of Malacca, which run between Indonesia's Sumatra island and peninsular Malaysia.
Mandasy123 - July 28, 2004 07:43 PM (GMT)
ahh modern day Pirates of the Caribbean
chris_USN_ET - August 9, 2004 06:47 PM (GMT)
p: Yes this seems to be a big problem these days. I read horror stories about this in sailing magazines. Now I have been reading a new book called Hawke by James Patterson. This book starts out with a gripping modern day pirate story. As a avid sailor I think about pirates often as I dream about sailing the Caribean. They say the best way to protect yourself when cruising is to sail with a organized regata.
Chris noe'
Chris noe'
DirkPitt - August 9, 2004 11:50 PM (GMT)
Welcome chris_USN_ET !
Good to have you onboard ... Enjoy!
Cheers ... p:
Good to have you onboard ... Enjoy!
Cheers ... p:
NUMA_Diver - August 10, 2004 04:26 AM (GMT)
Here is how I would like to "sail" the caribbean.......
Loren - August 22, 2004 03:24 PM (GMT)
Nice Mike!!
Great pirate article th:
Great pirate article th:
tonym5 - September 9, 2004 07:40 PM (GMT)
p: This pirate does not condone violence :) This pirate prefers to party and cruise the waters.
hiramyaegar - September 12, 2004 09:33 PM (GMT)
Reminds me of the Op Center book called Sea of Fire, but that's a whole different type of piratism.
This isn't how you go boating?
Or on one of these?
This isn't how you go boating?
Or on one of these?
Loren - October 25, 2004 01:02 AM (GMT)
A floating trailer...I have now seen it all t: