Are Cruise Ships Safe From Pirates

The number of attacks has grown fivefold since the late 1980s from 50 a year to more than 250 in each of.

Are cruise ships safe from pirates. Most of the water cannon anti-piracy systems can be remotely controlled from a safe position on ships. The 10000-ton cruise ship registered in the Bahamas. Seabourn Cruises ships have been chased twice by pirates.

Personally I wont be surprised if cruise ships start carrying professional security staff when cruising in the Gulf of Aden. We board our luxury cruise ship in Djibouti on the Gulf of Aden near the. Passengers on world cruises have been told to observe blackouts to protect against pirates in African waters.

But its safe to sail he said. Cruise ships travel right across the world and from time to time they must cross pirate-infested waters. Because cruise ships pose a difficult target cargo ships have been the primary target for pirates.

A vessel was attacked off Liberia but there have been no incidents to the north of this and Senegal and the Cape Verde islands remain relatively safe. Saturday Silver Spirit competed its transit of the Gulf of Aden a region notorious for pirates who attack and hijack ships with incidents recently escalating. Piracy is defined as the practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea typically involving violence.

It is always good to know that sufficient precautionary measures are taken in the cruise ships for an unlikely event of pirate attack. While pirates may be something considered the stuff of fairytales rather than real life it has recently been revealed that all major cruise lines have serious protocols in place to protect. Neptune P2P Group has extensive experience working with cruise ship organisations at.

Thanks to your interesting post my misconception is cleared. Those cruises that sail along the coats of Africa have been pinpointed as suffering particular risk. We are no longer referring to the Jack.