Bob Couttie’s Maritime Accident Casebook

Like us? Bookmark this article! Five ships, two under gunfire, deterred attacks by Puntland pirates in the Gulf Of Aden in one day alone. Lessons, it seems, are being learned.
Evasive manoeuvering and fire hoses were used to defend the vessels, which have not been named, on [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! New: MAC Special - Lessons From The Danica White
Piracy has continued unabated since the taking of the Danica White in 2007.
Are lessons being learned? Bob Couttie and the Nautical Institute’s Steve Jones
discuss modern piracy.

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Language Barrier Caused Coast Guard To Underestimate SF Bay Oil Spill
AHN - USA
… crew and inexperience in assessing the accident prompted them to initially estimate the oil spill from the m/v Cosco Busan at 140 gallons. 

Royal Navy finds sunken wreck [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! xpect to see much discussion on the effectiveness or otherwise of Ship Security Alert Systems over the next few weeks with the scheduled publication of a study by former BIMCO International Liaison Officer Thomas Timlen, now visiting research fellow in the Maritime [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! About the only thing the master and crew of the Danica White did right 205 miles off the Somali coast on the morning of 1st June, 2007, was to do what the pirates told them, according to the just-released English version of [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! IMB CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO NIGERIA ATTACK.
Maritime Global Net - Warren,RI,USA
“This is a totally unacceptable situation,” said Captain Pottengal Mukundan, Director of the ICC International Maritime Bureau which runs the Piracy 
Pirates off Somalia threaten to kill tanker crew: UN
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Like us? Bookmark this article! Communication Lost With Hijacked Ship

Communication was lost with MV Al Marjan, which was hijacked by Somali pirate on October 17.

Coast Guard assists damaged freighter
BOSTON - The Coast Guard is assisting a damaged freight vessel today about 150 miles southeast of Cape Cod, [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! Responding to Piracy and Other African Maritime Security Challenges, J. Peter Pham:
While most of the battles, both political and military, in the ongoing Somali conflict have been on land, recent events have highlighted that the instability emanating from the failed state is [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! The International Maritime Bureau has issued the following weekly report
Recently reported incidents

14.09.2007: 0330 UTC: 06:18N - 003:22E, Lagos anchorage, Nigeria.
Deck crew onboard a tanker carrying out STS operations noticed two small boats in [...]

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Like us? Bookmark this article! The following information is from the IMB’s website. Fopr further information go t0 the International Maritime Bureau here.
Recently reported incidents

13.09.2007: 0550 UTC: Posn: 18:33.9N - 072:23.0W: Port au Prince, Haiti.
Robbers, armed with knives, [...]

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