Month: August 2012

  • Minehunters Protect Tanker

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    While Royal Navy ships protect the London Olympics others have rushed to prevent a pirate attack in the Middle East Minehunters protect drifting tanker in pirate waters The minehunters HMS […]

  • Négligences en Série

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    L’enquête sur le naufrage du navire de croisière révèle que la tragédie a été provoquée par une succession de fautes. Costa Concordia : négligences en série De Dominique Dunglas, Le […]

  • Trigger-happy Pirates

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    According to the freed captain of the MV Albedo, the hardest part of his 21 months as a hostage was calming down the trigger-happy gang of Somali pirates and keeping […]

  • HMS Daring Arrives Home

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    HMS Daring returned to her home in Portsmouth today after completing her maiden operational deployment to the Middle East. HMS Daring arrives home after deployment of firsts HMS Daring returned […]

  • “Help us, please save us”

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    The 15 crewmen still being held captive on the MV Albedo have issued a letter pleading for their lives addressed to the chairman of the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee in Karachi Crewmen […]

  • US ‘trouble-making’

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    The US State Department’s declared “close” monitoring of increased tensions in the South China Sea has caused problems with the authorities in Beijing. South China Sea: Beijing attacks US ‘trouble-making’ […]

  • Life as a Somali pirate hostage

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    In late 2008, Daily Telegraph correspondent Colin Freeman and Jose Cendon, a Spanish photographer travelled to Somalia to investigate the recent spate of piracy attacks that were terrorising shipping in […]

  • Maritime Terrorism

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    In the second of the MSR Viewpoint series, Maritime Terrorism: How Real is the Threat?, maritime security expert Dr. Donna J. Nincic examines past episodes of maritime terrorism and offers […]

  • Unmanned Marine Drones

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    The Ministry of Defence is seeking to develop a new generation of unmanned maritime “drones” that would be used for anti-submarine warfare and possible missile attacks on enemy ships, the […]

  • Tackling the sea devils

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    With frequent incidents of maritime violence and tension in recent time, the seas have become more and more unsafe even for bona fide seafarers. If it’s not the Somali pirates […]

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