18 October 2011

Ex-Marines Fighting Pirates as World Shipping Lanes Attacked - BusinessWeek

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Ex-Marines Fighting Pirates as World Shipping Lanes Attacked
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“The pirates will back off and wait to find a vessel that isn't armed. For the vessels that are unable to protect themselves, the violence will be quite intense.” PVI guards in September repelled a pirate attack on a vessel owned by Torm A/S, ...

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Piracy Attacks at Record Levels But Hijackings Decline - Insurance Journal

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Piracy Attacks at Record Levels But Hijackings Decline
Insurance Journal
“Somali pirates are finding it harder to hijack ships and get the ransom they ask for. The navies deserve to be complimented on their excellent work: they are a vital force in deterring and disrupting pirate activity,” said Mukundan. ...
Watchdog: Emboldened Somali pirates drive world attacks to recordMonsters and Critics.com
Watchdog says world sea piracy has hit new high with more raids in Somalia, BeninWashington Post
Piracy rising to record ratesNASDAQ

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17 October 2011

Pirate hostages saved by HMS Somerset - This is Somerset

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Pirate hostages saved by HMS Somerset
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Crew on board a Royal Navy frigate rescued a group of Pakistani fishermen who had been taken hostage by Somali pirates who seized their trawler. In a daring mission Royal Marines from HMS Somerset boarded a large fishing dhow being used by the pirates ...

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16 October 2011

Pirate Busters UK Ltd - The Sun

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Pirate Busters UK Ltd
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Last month Brit tourist Judith Tebbutt, 56, was kidnapped by Somali pirates and her 58-year-old husband David was shot dead. Last year Brits Paul and Rachel Chandler were released for a reported £600000 ransom after months in captivity. ...
SEA TRANSPORTATION: Targeting The MiddlemenStrategy Page

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Tough time for pirates, sea robbers as Navy gears up for war - Vanguard

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Tough time for pirates, sea robbers as Navy gears up for war
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For maritime operators in Nigeria, it has been one long tale of woes over the raw deal they have been having in the hands of pirates and sea robbers on waterways who delight in seizing their ships with near impunity. ...

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Message in a Bottle: Old School S.O.S. Helps Rescue Hijacked Ship - Wired News

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Message in a Bottle: Old School S.O.S. Helps Rescue Hijacked Ship
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Ship owners can now fend off hijackings with puke-inducing chemical sprays, ear-splitting sonic blasters and anti-pirate lasers. But this week a ship's crew foiled a hijacking with help from a decidedly older technology: a message in a bottle. ...
AUDIO: Pirates foiled by crew's bottled SOSBBC News
Somalian pirate ship's town linkHartlepool Today
Message in bottle tells rescuers that pirate hostages are safe in citadelMarine Log
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Tanker hijacked off Nigeria with 20 crew freed - AFP

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Tanker hijacked off Nigeria with 20 crew freed
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LAGOS — The 20 Eastern European crew of a tanker hijacked off Nigeria nearly a week ago were freed along with the vessel on Friday, officials said, amid mounting concern at West African pirate attacks. Details of the release of the crew as well as the ...
Tanker Hijacked Off Nigeria Released Along With CrewGCaptain (press release)

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BOLTON: Treat Somali pirates like terrorists - Washington Times

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BOLTON: Treat Somali pirates like terrorists
Washington Times
The recent kidnapping of a handicapped French woman from a Kenyan resort, initially attributed to Somali pirates, was the second such kidnapping in a month. Kenyan authorities now blame al-Shabab, the Somali terrorist group affiliated ...
IMO Host Anti Pirate Day but Freight and Shipping Interests Still Await Better ...The Handy Shipping Guide
UK to set up maritime center in Seychelles to combat piracyeTurboNews

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SOMALIAN PIRATES WHO ARE BEING STOPPED IN THEIR TRACKS BY BRITISH MERCENARIES - Daily Star

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SOMALIAN PIRATES WHO ARE BEING STOPPED IN THEIR TRACKS BY BRITISH MERCENARIES
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RUTHLESS Somali pirates unleashing terror on the high seas are being smashed by groups of British mercenaries. Anti-piracy firms are making a fortune by hiring out teams of £1500-a-day ex-military hard men to protect ships from gun-toting ...

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13 October 2011

Brit Marines save 23 in daring Somali pirate raid - The Sun

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Brit Marines save 23 in daring Somali pirate raid
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BRITISH Commandos were today praised as heroes after storming a cargo ship and freeing 23 hostages from the clutches of Somali pirates. The ten-strong team of elite Royal Navy specialists and Royal Marines mounted a joint operation ...
Marines overpower pirates after crew sends message in a bottleScotsman
Message in a bottle foils pirate attackHerald Scotland
Somali pirates foiled by British and U.S. naval forcesGlobalPost
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Owner: 20 sailors on tanker seized off Nigeria - The Associated Press

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Owner: 20 sailors on tanker seized off Nigeria
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Violent pirate attacks in West Africa's Gulf of Guinea have risen in recent months, leading an umbrella group of London insurers to list Nigeria, neighboring Benin and nearby waters in the same risk category as Somalia.
Pirates Seize Tanker off Nigerian CoastVoice of America
Pirates hijack tanker off Nigerian coastAFP
Tanker ship, crew seized off Nigeria's coastForbes
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Weather slows dive on Blackbeard's pirate ship - msnbc.com

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Weather slows dive on Blackbeard's pirate ship
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Diving archaeologists are in the midst of a monthlong expedition to the sunken wreckage of the pirate Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, off the North Carolina coast, but the weather is not cooperating. ...

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Southsea captain helped lead pirate swoop - Portsmouth News

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Southsea captain helped lead pirate swoop
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A ROYAL Navy captain from Southsea was involved in the daring mission to free an Italian cargo ship captured by pirates, it has emerged. Captain Gerry Northwood, 49, played a leading role in the operation from the naval supply ship RFA Fort Victoria, ...

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Crew of pirate fishing vessel seized off Alaska faces deportation - Alaska Dispatch

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Crew of pirate fishing vessel seized off Alaska faces deportation
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Mark Begich, D-Alaska, suggested that the "pirate fishing vessel" be towed out into the Bering Sea and blasted to smithereens as a target for Coast Guard gunships. "It would send an unambiguous signal that pirate fishing is unacceptable to the United ...

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Somalian pirate ship's town link - Hartlepool Today

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Somalian pirate ship's town link
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A SHIP which made international headlines when its crew was subjected to a terrifying hijack by Somalian pirates was berthed in Hartlepool just last month. The Italian ship Montecristo was stormed by a crack team of Royal Marine commandos after it was ...
Message in bottle tells rescuers that pirate hostages are safe in citadelMarine Log
UK forces storm pirate-held shipBBC News
Sea captain helps rescue ship after pirate attackshropshirestar.com
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