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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Jackal1 on October 16, 2007, 07:42:11 AM
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Don`t know if Odege even visits the O`club or not, but was just wondering if he has ever experienced anything like this .
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Pirate attacks up worldwide
2 hours, 26 minutes ago
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Maritime pirate attacks worldwide shot up 14 percent in the first nine months of 2007 from a year earlier, with Somalia and Nigeria showing the biggest increases, an international watchdog said Tuesday.
While Africa remains problematic, Southeast Asia's Malacca Strait, one of the world's busiest waterways, has been relatively quiet, the International Maritime Bureau said in its report.
A total of 198 attacks on ships were reported between January and September this year, up from 174 in the same period in 2006, the IMB said.
It said a total of 15 vessels were hijacked, 63 crew kidnapped and three killed.
In the July to September period alone, there were 72 incidents, up from 47 in the same period a year earlier, marking the second straight quarterly rise in attacks, the London-based IMB said through its piracy reporting center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
"If this current trend continues, it would appear that the decline in piracy attacks since 2004 has bottomed out," it warned.
Indonesia remained the world's worst piracy hotspot, with 37 attacks in the first nine months of 2007 — but that was an improvement from 40 in the same period a year earlier, the IMB said.
Attacks rose rapidly in Somalia to 26 reported cases, up from only 8 a year earlier, it said. Somalia's U.N.-backed government has been struggling to assert control over the country since it accepted the aid of Ethiopian soldiers to chase a powerful Islamic alliance from power.
Nigeria also suffered 26 attacks so far this year, up from 9 previously.
IMB director Pottengal Mukundan urged ships to stay as far as possible from the coasts of Somalia and Nigeria, which remained dangerous with large numbers of violent kidnappings.
"The level of violence in high risk areas remain unacceptable. Pirates in Somalia are operating with impunity, seizing vessels hundreds of miles off the coast and holding the vessel and crew to ransom, making no attempt to hide their activity," he said.
Only four attacks were reported in the Malacca Strait this year, compared to 8 in the same period in 2006, thanks to increased cooperation between states straddling the waterway, the IMB said.
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Originally posted by Jackal1
Don`t know if Odege even visits the O`club or not, but was just wondering if he has ever experienced anything like this .
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Pirate attacks up worldwide
2 hours, 26 minutes ago
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Maritime pirate attacks worldwide shot up 14 percent in the first nine months of 2007 from a year earlier, with Somalia and Nigeria showing the biggest increases, an international watchdog said Tuesday.
OK Where's Nisen? :rofl
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
OK Where's Nisen? :rofl
They don`t have to attack Nilsen. They just sit around and wait for him to run aground.
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I was inferring that Nilsen WAS the pirate LOL
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
I was inferring that Nilsen WAS the pirate LOL
Well..in that case........if he were a pirate, and had a drink named after him, it would be............. Pirate On The Rocks. :rofl
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The only remedy is good surveillance, links, and weapons.
The only friend is a good coastguard.
(I know Lazs loves me saying this,,,,,,,:D)
But true. The pirates usually ride small ships and board big ones. They go at night. They have commonly green lights for being spotted late. (by the time you spot them, they're already boarding) And they are usually thugs armed to the teeth.
Just the 5 bucks.....from a descendant of pirates ;)
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you forgot to mention the merchant ships and crews are not allowed to carry weapons, easy pickings.
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I've sailed on a shell vessel through the Malacca straights.
The only defence was a dummy that was tied to the back of the ship to represent a look out.......
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Originally posted by Bruv119
I've sailed on a shell vessel through the Malacca straights.
The only defence was a dummy that was tied to the back of the ship to represent a look out.......
Would not be bad...................unless it was your day in the barrel. :)