Human Element

  • Commander Bill King Laid to Rest

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    Galway said goodbye this week to Commander Bill King of Oranmore Castle, who passed away last Friday at the age of 102. Oldest surviving submarine commander passes away By Marie […]

  • Burmese Seafarers’ Future

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    As Myanmar increasingly opens up to the outside world an inevitable increase in living standards and by extension wages has some shipmanagers on edge. What future for Burmese seafarers? As […]

  • Killing of Fishermen

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    …From 500 meters away, gunshots erupted from the tanker toward Quanas’s skiff and its unarmed fishermen. Two rounds pierced the water on the motorboat’s starboard side, and a third slammed into […]

  • Don’t Mention the Pirates

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    Paul and Rachel Chandler are setting sail around the world, just two years after their horrific ordeal at the hands of Somali pirates The hijack couple are back at sea […]

  • Somali pirates claim to kill hostage

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    MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali pirates who have been holding a hijacked ship for nearly two years killed a Syrian hostage crew member and wounded another to protest a delayed ransom […]

  • Search Called Off

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    After Australian and commercial ships having plucked more than 50 people from the sea, the rescue operation for survivors of a boat carrying asylum seekers that sank near Indonesia’s Java […]

  • View Fishing Without Nets

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    Awarded the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking at the Sundance 2012 Film Festival (see Fishing Without Nets), director Cutter Hodierne’s tale of Somalian pirates, co-written with John Hibey, can now be […]

  • The Forgotten Hostages

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    The plight of a ship’s crew held hostage for more than two and half years has become a “scar on the conscience of the shipping industry”. Abandoned at sea – […]

  • Missing Asylum Boat

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    Australian and Indonesian authorities are searching for a missing boat, believed to be carrying asylum seekers. Australia and Indonesia search for missing asylum boat Australian and Indonesian authorities are searching […]

  • Pirate Hostage Comes Home

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    George Lipih Ambo, a Malaysian who was kidnapped by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea, Nigeria and held for 20 days had never thought he would able to return home […]

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