2008 Pirates Chase Cruise Ship

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2008 pirates chase cruise ship. Somali pirates captured a Bolivian-flagged ship in the Maldives Exclusive Economical Zone 193 mi 311 km northwest off Hoarafushi island. File image of the Nautica in. 30 pirates fired upon the MS Nautica a cruise liner carrying 650 passengers and 400 crew but the massive ship outran its assailants.

A Danish navy spokesman refused to name the vessel involved but a Danish media report said the cruise ship Nautica carrying 400 passengers and 200 crew was the target of the latest attack by Somali pirates. Photo released 12 April 2008 by the French Navy and taken 11 April 2008 in the Indian Ocean shows French luxury cruise ship SV Le Ponant s crew members being evacuated from their ship after being released by pirates off the Somalian coast. The cruise ship is owned by Miami based Oceania Cruises and was.

NAIROBI Pirates chased and shot at a US. 1657 EDT 1 December 2008. But according to Danish TV2 News six to eight armed pirates on two speed boats were observed speeding toward the Nautica a cruise liner that had set sail from Florida.

Despite the cruise lines denials this attack was evaluated by our people and others with a stake in the game as totally authentic and it involved the approximate number of boats initially reported by ATHENA. A newspaper in Oman published a report today indicating that a cruise ship approximately 15 nautical miles off Masirah Island east of Oman was aggressively approached by two skiffs suspected of belonging to Somali pirates on November 23rd. Marshall Islands United States MS Nautica cruise ship 386 684 passengers Capture failed.

Somali pirates attack and chase cruise ship carrying British tourists. Piracy off the coast of SomaliaFishing communities responded by forming armed groups to deter the invaders by hijacking commercial vessels. As their cruise ship steamed through the Gulf of Aden on Sunday morning the 656 passengers and 400 crew members aboard the MS.

NAIROBI Kenya AP Pirates chased and shot at an American cruise ship with more than 1000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by. 2 2008 433 AM PST Source. Pirates Fire on a Cruise Ship.