Month: May 2011
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Rolling Totals
The Rolling Total of reported maritime security incidents continues to grow, and the following are the figures up the end of April 2011. They make grim reading, as you might […]
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Getting Creative
When the Sea Shepherd’s, “Steve Irwin” transited pirate waters they were forced to get creative to protect themselves. Possibly the most important measure on board was to put up a […]
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Doubling Up
There has been a focus lately on the “wages” which Somali pirates can expect to earn over a “career”. Over a five year spree a pirate can make $168,000-$394,000, though […]
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Heading Out
USS Bush, the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, has been readied for the ship’s maiden deployment. The carrier and strike group, a collection of ships and aircraft squadrons comprised of nearly […]
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Terror Alert
Pirates operating of the coast of Somalia are expanding both their reach and their profit motive, said Adm. John T. Harvey, USN, commander of the U.S. Fleet Forces Command. They […]
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Liability Issues
While the use of arms on ships has seen some begrudging acceptance, there is still the small matter of legality to consider. The biggest underlying concern for owners and masters […]
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Who Are You?
With shipping facing a threat like no other off Somalia it seems we have been abandoned with only a private unregulated army of former soldiers and marines, gap year students and nightclub bouncers, […]
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Blockade Calls
US Senator Mark Kirk, has been sharing more thoughts on piracy after his fact-finding trip to the Horn of Africa. He thinks the U.S. Navy should put a total blockade […]
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Standard Bearers
The call for maritime security firms to come together to create a code of conduct and ethics, has been answered by the launch of the Security Association for the Maritime […]
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Game On
To fight piracy the U.S. Navy has now added a new weapon. They have turned to a “World of Warcraft”-like multiplayer game called MMOWGLI. The game brings experts from around […]
