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return Ukrainian warships that were stationed in Crimea. Commander of Egypt's 3rd Field ! Army stressed that the Suez Canal is highly secured by the latest technologies (US agrees to re-establish military aid). The Australian 19 - 25 April 2014 No. 17/14 Navy seized heroin worth $290 million off Tankers hijacked, crew kidnap - insider Kenya, but back home their hardline policy on job?; Special court for oil thieves? Overall asylum seekers is protested by Indonesia. improvement on piracy in Asia/IOR; 6,246 The USA's unintentional role in funding profits incidents officially reported 1995-2013 - of illegal fishing may lead to an amendment of the Lacey Act. SE Asia piracy/armed robbery incidents fluctuated first quarter but overall As Somali MPs and lawmakers are improvement quarter-on-quarter comparison assassinated, investigation into soldiers being along with global piracy reduction, charged money to second them to AMISOM particularly off Somalia. Two tankers boarded deployment. Al Shabaab said the attacks and hijacked for fuel in 5 days off Malaysia's were for the "invasion of the Christians in East and West coasts, but three crew kidnap Somalia." being probed for insider job. A report on The S Korean ferry tragedy, affected by global piracy between 1995 to August 2013 strong currents, very poor visibility, and poor shows that 6,246 officially reported incidents weather conditions sees 187 bodies occurred - the impact on so many seafarers, recovered to date, but the impact on the however, remains unquantified. Following the nation has seen generous donations beyond maritime security exercise, Obangame anything expected. Arrests, stories of heroism Express, with 22 Nations, Nigerian Navy and of failings of those ashore makes it no seeks the creation of special courts to ensure less a traumatic event. The chances of finding ease of prosecution of alleged oil thieves, the missing flight MH370 seems to be fading which was also raised back in 2012. A as the black box signal is likely dead, the end relationship seen off Africa's west coast is of the submarine search is close and some one based on stewardship of the S Atlantic assets are withdrawn in the protracted Ocean with Brazil; both are preoccupied with mission. The search will continue, but security of natural resources. uncertainty of the location is a concern. Natural resources is also of interest in the NW A cargo ship sinks off Crete with 3 crew IOR as surveys off East African nations members missing. The US Maine Corps is continue to looking for a few good actors to play advance. Oil terrorists in training exercises. “We are doing a thorough export from Libya investigation. We have ruled east remains Reports of an Virgin flight being hijacked were out kidnapping because no delayed; Russia premature, as the passenger arrested as the ransom demand has been highlights the plane landed in Bali was said to have made… ” need for confused the cockpit with the toilet. Crew -MALAYSIA MARINE POLICE enhanced security handcuffed him. Whether he found relief is DEPUTY COMMANDER ABDUL in the Arctic not known. RAHIM ABDULLAH territories, whilst in Ukraine, they OL Newsletter 17/14 25 April 2014

ARRIVAL of Russian seismic survey vessel Regional Activity Akademik Fersman in Port Victoria, Seychelles, is further evidence of petrochemical companies' East Africa/Indian Ocean interest in the northwest ! Indian Ocean - IHS Maritime 360. INCREASED SECURITY measures, development Akademik Fersman, of a justice system and economic growth have operated by Russian greatly curbed the threat that Somali piracy once geophysical service posed - The National. company But the country still needs help to provide Dalmorneftegeophysica (DMNG), is expected to alternatives for Somalis to deter them from spend a month in Seychelles' waters carrying out activities such as piracy and terrorism, said Nick the first phase of a two-year exploration Kay, the UN ambassador to Somalia. programme. Mr Kay was in Abu Dhabi last week to meet UAE The work is being conducted for a joint venture of officials. Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation “We shouldn’t forget that the failed state that (Jogmec), the government of Seychelles and Somalia had become allowed piracy to flourish off national oil company PetroSeychelles. the coast, which cost the world economy billions,” Exploration and exploitation are already well Mr Kay said. advanced in Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique The hostages taken and people killed amounted and Tanzania, with refineries and shipping to a human tragedy as well, he added. terminals either planned or under construction, “So there are good, hard-nosed reasons why the but active exploration has also restarted in international community in general and the UAE Somalia. as part of that should be interested in making sure In February, UK company Soma Oil & Gas Somalia recovers and is a prosperous, peaceful contracted SeaBird Exploration to carry out 2-D and stable state,” he said. Read more… ! seismic surveys off the coast of Somalia. Read more… A SKIFF was detained by the Pakistani Navy under the suspicion of conducting piracy activity ! A SOMALI lawmaker was killed when a bomb in its waters near Gwadar. The navy was alerted planted by Islamist militants ripped through his car after a bulk carrier reported to UK Maritime Trade in the capital Mogadishu on Monday, officials said Operation and headed towards the Pakistani - Reuters. coast for assistance - IHS Maritime 360. Al Qaeda-linked group al Shabaab told Reuters it Apparently the vessel was being pursued by the set off the device to punish parliamentarians for skiff for four hours and took evasive measures in backing foreign forces in the country - and accordance with Best Management Practices threatened to carry out more attacks. Version 4 in reporting and asked local coastal The blast, which police said also wounded security force for response. another lawmaker and a civilian, came a day after A naval asset was immediately deployed and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud began a acted upon the distress call of the bulk carrier to three-day conference on how to improve security locate and arrest the suspected pirates. in the war-ravaged capital. Despite the success in averting the suspected Al Shabaab told Reuters the attack was piracy attempt, the incident will not be included in punishment for Somali lawmakers approving the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) statistics. "invasion of the Christians into Somalia", a Read more. ! reference to the support Mogadishu receives from Western governments and African Union members SOMALILAND ARMED forces have withdrawn who have sent in troops to battle the rebels. Read from Taleh, a disputed sool region after the forces more… seized the town on Tuesday morning amid THE

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! His Excellency Garam Bin Said Bin Garam FEDERAL MEMBER of Parliament has been killed Almulhan presented his credentials to the after bomb detonated inside his car in President in Villa Somalia, Mogadishu. Mogadishu's Hamar Weyne district according to Accompanied by Somalia’s Foreign Minister, His witnesses on Monday, Garowe Online reports - Excellency Abdirahman Duale Baileh, the AllAfrica. Ambassador pledged his country’s continued MP Isaaq Mohamed Riino succumbed to injuries support to the ongoing efforts to bring security to his body at Madina hospital, with security and stability to Somalia. officials saying the bomb would have been The President said: “Our brothers in the Kingdom attached beneath his seat. of Saudi Arabia have been true friends to Somalia. Despite wave of attacks including car bombings, In our time of need, Saudi Arabia has maintained planned assassinations and military style relationship and has consistently provided aid to ambushes by Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab the Somali people. A recent example of the aid militants, no group claimed responsibility for the that Saudi Arabia has provided was through the deadly explosion. construction of wells at a time when water was in Another lawmaker Mohamud Ali Dhuuh and a critically short supply. Read more… bystander were also injured. Security forces arrived at the scene of the attack, cordoning off the nearby main roads for investigations. Read !more… THE [UGANDAN] ARMY is investigating reports that commanders charge soldiers money to second them for deployment with the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) - Shabelle News. An Observer investigation has found that commanders of UPDF’s specialised units deployed around the country sell the Amisom slots to their charges for between Shs 500,000 and Shs 1 million. Soldiers who pass the initial selection from their units then face a second hurdle during specialised refresher training in preparation for deployment in Somalia. Military sources further told us that many of the soldiers have to part with more money along the chain, to ensure they are among those deemed fit for deployment to Amisom. Asked what the army was doing about this matter, the UPDF spokesman, Lt Col Paddy Ankunda, said the military considered such actions criminal and would not hesitate to punish perpetrators if it !gets conclusive evidence. Read more… HIS EXCELLENCY President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud today welcomed the new Ambassador from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Somalia and said, “Saudi Arabia has been a constant friend to Somalia throughout the years of trouble.” - RBC Radio

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expected to boost the efforts of the already West Africa placed personnel on ground. ! THIS DAY gathered that some of these officers, SMUGGLERS AND pirates endanger the shipping who had been trained for a period of 14 months, route at the Nigerian coast. Nigerian soldiers enter were prepped by their instructors in areas like a German frigate as part of a naval exercise Above Water Warfare, Under Water Warfare, dubbed Obangame Express in order to practice Navigation and Direction, Communication and tackling that threat - DW. Information Technology, to prepare them for the The cargo ship MV task ahead. Read more… Stannis left the Libyan port of ! THE KERALA cargo vessel loaded with 60,000 Benghazi weeks tons of diesel on January 18 was an easy target ago. It passed the for pirates lurking in the Strait of Gibraltar waters off West Africa and then travelled - Foreign Policy. south. Now the After maritime freighter, which has seen better days, is heading security firms warned to the port of Lagos in Nigeria. of a tugboat stalking Captain Dirk Smith stands on the bridge, scanning the Kerala off the the horizon with his binoculars. Then the radio coast of Angola, the crackles: the Nigerian frigate Thunder asks for the tanker’s vessel data and about the cargo. Captain Smith communication systems were turned off and the answers that his load is general cargo, machines ship went missing for eight days. On January 26, and equipment parts, but he knows that this is a the Kerala was back on the map and headed for lie. The MV Stannis is smuggling weapons. safety at a port near Accra, Ghana. The crew said The ship's real name is Hamburg, not MV Stannis, pirates stabbed one crew member, beat others, and it is not an old cargo ship but a modern and unloaded close to 13,000 tons of diesel in frigate. Furthermore, Dirk Smith's actual name is three separate transfers. Dirk Steffen, and he serves as a captain in the The Kerala is one example of a dramatic upswing German navy. The Hamburg vessel and Captain in attacks on high-value oil tankers on Africa’s Steffen are only pretending to be arms smugglers west coast, replacing Somali waters as the world’s as part of the Obangame Express naval exercise. new piracy hotspot. In it, 20 countries practice operations against Around one-fifth of global pirate attacks come smugglers and pirates at the West African coast. from Nigeria, ranked by Transparency International The main objective is to work through as 144 in corruption out of 177 nations (Somalia communications, the command chain and was 175). Of 51 incidents in the Gulf of Guinea, boarding procedures relating to the entry of Nigerian rebels were responsible for 31. In some foreign ships. Read More… ways, the upswing in Nigerian oil pirates is an ! extension of the Niger Delta conflict, where rebels IN CONTINUATION of the military’s common goal have sought to sabotage the oil industry through to stamp out insurgency especially in the North- theft and disruption for years. east, the Nigerian Navy (NN) Saturday said it Image - Pirates surrender to a NATO counter- would deploy some of the newly graduated piracy task force (Photo: Official U.S. Navy Page students of the 19th batch of the Officers Long via Flickr). Read more… Course (OLC) to beef up its ranks - This Day Live. The move, which is coming on the heels of the ! recent bomb blast at Nyanya Bus Terminal and ! the kidnap of some female school children in Abuja and Chibok in Borno, respectively, is

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A FORENSIC criminologist and security co- African piracy is Nigeria, with 12 attacks and ordinator at the American University of Nigeria, Dr. multiple kidnappings this year. Lionel Von Frederck Rawlins has disclosed that Al- Aboko Patrick, mayor of Kombo Abedimo, a Qaeda and Al-Shabab terrorist organisations Cameroonian locality on the Bakassi peninsula, operating in the Islamic Maghreb and Arabian tells VOA that the government of Cameroon peninsula have been helping members of Boko negotiated his release when he and some friends Haram carry out their operations in Nigeria - were captured by pirates. Vanguard Nigeria. "We were embarrassed with three gun boats Rawlins, a US marine, who has worked in Europe, armed to the teeth, with about 10 persons per Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the boat," he said. "There were gun firings. Some of Middle East and Far East as a counter-terrorist us fell into water and we were picked up by specialist, explained that Nigeria is under siege pirates and taken to their camp. We were given from terrorists from other lands. indiscriminate beatings for close to about six He advised the Nigerian government to seek help hours. We sustained various injuries ranging from in dealing with the insurgency. wounds and fractures." According to him, the Nigerian government and Philip Hey, chief of the air and maritime program people “only have to ask and they will send of the U.S. Africa Command, says organized people. piracy is increasing because West African “Some people believe that it is politically- countries do not make maritime safety a priority. motivated, may be it was and it started off that Read More… way; some believe it is religiously-motivated but I ! don’t know if that is true, I doubt it because BRAZIL HAS a strong relationship with the West Muslims are killing Muslims as well, not just Coast of Africa, primarily based on the joint Christians and non-Muslims; so if you want to stewardship of the South Atlantic Ocean. Brazil look at it that way, it is a fallacy. What I would say has also given military equipment to a number of is that it has got to the point where Boko Haram is West African nations, including maritime patrol killing people because Boko Haram is now aircraft to Cape Verde and proving a point that it can kill and get away with it. OPVs to the Namibian It has gone beyond religion, politics and ideology. Navy in order to enhance It is a belief: ‘I can kill people and I can get away the security of this with it and let me show you I can do it.’ That is important maritime what it is now. It is a showman thing. domain - DefenceIQ. He explained that Boko Haram currently receives Many cultural connections help from other globally recognised terror groups. exist too, especially between Portuguese- What you have now are “insurgents from other speaking, or lusophone, West African nations countries. They are trained by Al-Qaeda, Al- such as Angloa, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Shabab and other groups. Read more… Príncipe, Cape Verde and now Equatorial Guinea, ! which recently voted to add Portuguese to their THREE BLOCS of African countries and the list of official languages. With Portuguese as an United States have official language, countries can apply for agreed to coordinate membership of the Community of Portuguese efforts to fight piracy in Language Countries (CPLP), a powerful the Gulf of Guinea - organisation of multilateral cooperation that has Voice of America helped solve problems in West Africa including News. São Tomé and Príncipe, and Guinea-Bissau Forty vessels have been following coups d'état in those countries (2003 attacked by armed gangs in the Gulf of Guinea and 2012 respectively). this year, according to senior officials of the U.S. Inter-naval cooperation forms an important part of military's Africa Command. The epicentre of West Brazil’s relationship with West Africa, and the

OCEANUSLive Information, Security, Safety; Shared 5 OL Newsletter 17/14 25 April 2014 shared language makes it easier to foster these convicted. This is because the current situation ties. Out of the 23 foreign students studying at has serious impact on the financial burden of the Brazil’s prestigious Escola Naval in Rio de Janeiro, navy. Read More… 17 come from Africa, although with students from Namibia and Senegal present, attendance is not limited exclusively to lusophone countries. With Southeast Asia lessons taught in Portuguese, Brazil is ! strengthening its existing ties with the region and PIRATES STOPPED a Singapore-owned tanker in reaching out to build new ones. the Malacca Strait and stole several million litres Brazil has a clear strategic interest in securing the of diesel fuel it was carrying, Malaysian marine South Atlantic and over the last five years the police said Wednesday - AP News. Brazilian government has launched or intensified Marine police deputy commander Abdul Rahim efforts meant to securitise the South Atlantic. Abdullah said the tanker was sailing from Geographic reality makes West African nations an Singapore to Myanmar when it was boarded by important part of this process. Underpinning this up to 10 pirates armed with pistols and machetes preoccupation with maritime security are natural early Tuesday off Klang port. resources, following a continuing series of Abdul Rahim said two other tankers appeared and discoveries of large oil and gas deposits within the an estimated 3 million litres, of the 5 million litres pre-salt layers of Brazil’s continental shelf. Read of diesel on board the vessel, were transferred More… over a span of several hours. ! He said the ship's captain, chief engineer and a THE NIGERIAN Navy yesterday called on the supporting crewmember — all Indonesians — Federal Government to create a special court to were found missing along with their passports and ensure easy prosecution of alleged oil thieves - belongings. Authorities are probing the possibility Nigerian Navy. that the three may be involved in the robbery. Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral "We are doing a thorough investigation. We have Usman Jibrin made the call in Lagos after the ruled out kidnapping because no ransom demand commissioning of a patrol vessel, NNS DORINA, has been made," he told the Associated Press. which was donated by the Nigeria Ports Authority The ship is now anchored at Klang port outside (NPA). Kuala Lumpur for further investigations, he said. Vice Admiral Jibrin said the present judicial Read More… system was making the force lose money ! unnecessarily, explaining that the force’s account A SINGAPORE-managed, St Kitts & Nevis-flagged was garnished by the court for ships held beyond oil tanker was boarded by armed robbers in the reasonable time. Malacca Strait off Port He said: “The Nigerian Navy is still pleading with Klang. Three crew were appropriate authorities to ensure that criminals kidnapped during the arrested are timely and completely prosecuted. theft of part of the fuel This will help tremendously to deter and reduce cargo - significantly, the number of maritime crimes. OCEANUSLive. “You know the legal system we operate in Nigeria On 21 Apr 14 at or about today is such that people must be given fair 0620 hrs (local time), a Saint Kitts and Nevis- hearing. But along the line, some people abuse registered oil tanker, MT Naniwa Maru No. 1 these privileges and waste other people’s time, departed Singapore for the port of Yangon, hence, creating challenges in the dispensation of Myanmar with 4,344 metric tonnes of Marine justice. Diesel Oil onboard. “So, what we are asking for is the establishment On 22 Apr 14, the shipping company based in of special courts where criminals caught at the Singapore reported to the ReCAAP ISC that two maritime domain will be speedily tried and vessels came alongside MT Naniwa Maru No. 1

OCEANUSLive Information, Security, Safety; Shared 6 OL Newsletter 17/14 25 April 2014 near Port Klang, Malaysia in position 02° 59.00’ N, The three have been identified as captain Farizal, 100° 54.90’ E at or about 0100 hrs local. See map chief engineer Mohamad Alfan and chief officer below. Ariyandri Alhafsyah. At the time of the incident, there were 18 crew No ransom demand has been made for them comprising Indonesians, Indians and Thai either. nationals onboard the tanker. Upon receipt of the The Indonesian pirates tied up 18 crew members information, the ReCAAP ISC immediately alerted as they siphoned diesel from the Singapore- the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency owned vessel at about 1am on Tuesday. (MMEA). Federal Marine Police deputy commander Asst The Singapore shipping company updated the Comm Abdul Rahim Abdullah said it was very ReCAAP ISC that at or about 0055 hrs local on 22 suspicious that three of the ship’s key officers had Apr 14, five robbers appeared on the bridge, held gone missing with the eight pirates. Read More… the crew while they siphoned about 2,500 metric Click to play video HERE tonnes of Marine Diesel Oil and escaped. ! The company also reported that the master, chief PIRATES PILFERED diesel fuel from a Thai tanker officer and chief engineer (all Indonesians) were off Malaysia's east coast, making two attacks in a taken by the robbers, together with their personal week and raising concerns of a rising threat to belongings and travel documents. Read more… shipping, a maritime watchdog said Thursday - ! ABC News. A LOCAL boat is suspected to be involved in the The International Maritime Bureau said the tanker robbing of almost three million litres of diesel from was sailing from Singapore to Cambodia when it a Japanese tanker, Naniwa Maru 1, by eight was boarded by 16 pirates about 26 nautical miles criminals in the waters of Port Klang, near Pulau off Aur island on the east coast of the peninsula Ketam, early Tuesday morning - The Sun Daily. late April 17. Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) The pirates, armed with swords and guns, enforcement chief, Capt Christopher Dass said damaged the ship's communication equipment, based on the investigation through the marine transferred part of the fuel cargo into a smaller radar system, a local boat was at the same unknown tanker and stole the ship and crews' location of the tanker when the robbery occurred. belongings before fleeing, said Noel Choong, who "We are still trying to identify the owner of the heads the IMB's piracy reporting center in Kuala boat in our ongoing investigation," he said when Lumpur. contacted today. A similar theft followed just five days later. The It was reported that in the incident about 1am on pirates stopped a Singapore tanker in the Malacca April 22, the Naniwa Maru 1 with 18 crew and Strait off Malaysia's west coast and stole part of carrying a cargo of 4.5 million litres of diesel from its diesel cargo worth $2.5 million. Singapore and heading for Yangon, Myanmar was The captain of the Thai ship sustained minor robbed by eight men, suspected to be injuries. The ship continued its journey and Indonesians and armed with two pistols and a reached Cambodia on April 20 but only reported !machete. Read more… !the theft to the IMB on Wednesday. Read More… AN OIL tanker’s captain, chief officer and chief THE OVERALL improvement in the situation of engineer may have been in cahoots with pirates piracy and armed robbery against ships1 in Asia who pulled off a daring theft on board the vessel continues into the 1st Quarter of 2014 (January- Naniwa Maru 1- The Star Malaysia. March) for a third consecutive year based on a The three – all Indonesians – were missing when quarter-on-quarter comparison - OCEANUSLive. the pirates fled after stealing three million litres of The number of incidents of piracy and armed diesel from the tanker. Their passports, personal robbery against ships in Asia has fluctuated belongings and clothing were also missing from during January, February and March of 2014. A their rooms. total of 28 incidents, comprising 27 actual

OCEANUSLive Information, Security, Safety; Shared 7 OL Newsletter 17/14 25 April 2014 incidents and one attempted incident, were ! reported during January-March 2014. Graph 1 CHINESE PRESIDENT Xi Jinping, during a visit in shows the number of incidents (actual and Indonesia, proposed the building of a new attempted) for each month from January 2014 to “Maritime Silk Road” that would enhance a March 2014. partnership with other European and Asian Of the 27 actual incidents, 13 incidents involved countries - Greek Reporter. pirates/robbers armed with knives/machetes and The Greek ambassador to China, Vassilios Costis, four incidents involved pirates/robbers armed with believes that Greece can help China realize its guns and knives. As in past statistics where the plans. He said that Greece is an ideal place to type of weapons used was stated, most of the enter the emerging markets of southeastern pirates/robbers were armed with knives, which Europe and the eastern Mediterranean thanks to believed to have been carried to cut ropes, and in its geographical location and developed some cases, to threaten the crew, to compel the infrastructure. crew to surrender their valuables or to prevent the Emmanuel Stantzos, Greece’s minister for crew from capturing or stopping them from economic and commercial aﬀairs, claimed that escaping. Greece, located at the crossroads of three While there has been an overall improvement in continents (Asia, Europe and Africa), can play a the situation in Asia, the number of incidents in crucial role in the “Maritime Silk Road”. He stated the Straits of Malacca and Singapore has that the port of Piraeus is just 210 nautical miles increased during the 1st Quarter of 2014 from the main Mediterranean route and is the compared to the same period in 2012 and 2013. biggest port in the region. “Greece can be a Download Full Report Read More… gateway to Mediterranean and European markets ! for Chinese products,” Stantzos said. Read FIVE SNORKELLERS stranded on a tiny island oﬀ More… the east coast of Australia have been rescued after scrawling a giant SOS message into a nearby sandbank - Independent UK.

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were rescued by another cargo ship. Another four Americas/South America/ cargo ships, a helicopter and a coast guard vessel Caribbean participate in the search for the three missing ! people. Nothing Significant to Report No details regarding the ship's cargo or the circumstances that led to its sinking have been !made known so far. Read More… Other RUSSIA HAS hauled back to Ukraine 13 out of 70 ! warships and support vessels of the country’s THE UNITED States Marine Corps is looking for a navy that were stationed in Crimea, a local official few good actors to play terrorists in upcoming told RIA Novosti Monday. training exercises, putting out a casting call that The Ukrainian ships are could give clues about what the Pentagon is being withdrawn from prepping for. Crimea under A solicitation put out this month by the U.S. agreements between the Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Russian and Ukrainian Command sought an actor to play an "Al Qaeda militaries. Russian tugboats haul them to neutral personality," a French-speaker with a college waters, where they are transferred to Ukrainian degree in chemistry and three men who could play command. Some 60 ships of the Ukrainian Navy "high value insurgent" roles. The actors are still remain in Crimea. needed for training exercises in South Carolina "The last landing ship Kirovograd left the Donuzlav during the next three months - Fox News. Bay last Saturday,” said Dmitry Belik, the acting “Each final exercise is an 8-day training event head of the Sevastopol administration. which will be conducted by members of [Marine Earlier, media reports relayed that the Special Operation Company Mike],” a statement administration of acting President of Ukraine of work on the exercise reads. “The exercise is Olexander Turchynov said that all Ukrainian ships considered to be an important segment of and vessels had left Sevastopol and the Donuzlav collective training of [Marine Special Operation Bay and headed for Odessa. Read More… Company Mike’s] pre-deployment training ! program.” COMMANDER OF the Third Field Army Osama A total of 25 actors -- all of whom must be U.S. Askar stressed on Thursday 24/4/2014 that the citizens and be able to adapt to multiple scenarios Suez Canal waterway is highly secured at the -- are being sought for the exercises, which will present stage by the latest technologies - Egypt also feature the use of AK-47s with blank State Information Service. ammunition provided by BKM Enterprises. Read At a press conference on the occasion of the 32nd More… anniversary of the Sinai Liberation, ! Askar said forces from the 2nd and 3rd armies in THREE MEMBERS of the Togo-flagged Ag-Marina cooperation with naval and air units are securing cargo ship went missing on Thursday after it went the international waterway round the clock, in down 30 nautical miles off the western coast of addition to securing Martyr Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel Crete - ANAMPA and el-Salam Bridge. Greece. Togo-flagged He said the security situation in Sinai is 90 per Ag-Marina cargo ship cent stable, adding that the Armed Forces went missing succeeded in controlling Central Sinai and A total of seven crew aborting any attempt by any Jihadi element to members were sneak from the North to the South. aboard, probably Russians, four of which

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He underlined that the Armed Forces seized big accept, approve or accede to the Protocol. Read terrorist hotbeds in Central Sinai sometimes More… unilaterally or in cooperation with police forces. ! Askar said 30 Jihadis were arrested in Central SPEAKING TO his top national security aides on Sinai and they are now being tried. Tuesday, Putin highlighted the need for an Armed Forces seized over the past few days two enhanced security presence in Russian Arctic rocket launch pads, one rocket launcher and two territories. According to the president, oil cars loaded with 19 rockets that were on their way production facilities, loading terminals and to Cairo, he added. Read More… pipelines “must carefully be protected against ! terrorists and other potential threats” - Barents TECHNICAL PROBLEMS are delaying the Observer. reopening of Libya's eastern Zueitina oil export “There can be no port after the government reached a deal with trivialities in this rebels to end a blockage of the terminal, its justice work”, the president minister said on Sunday - Reuters. stressed, a transcript "There is some damage (at the port) due to the from the meeting long closure," Salah al-Merghani told a televised reads. news conference from the eastern city of The speech to the National Security Council Benghazi. comes on the same day as Putin signs He gave no date for the resumption of oil exports amendments in a federal law on the protection of from the 70,000 barrels-a-day port, adding that oil and gas objects and infrastructure. According talks to reopen the larger Ras Lanuf and Es Sider to the new legislation, the Russian oil companies ports would only start after the restart of Zueitina. will from now on be entitled to establish their own Read More… protection units. Image - Special forces will be hunting down THE ATHENS Convention relating to the Carriage "terrorists and other potential threats" in Arctic. of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 2002, (Photo: Greenpeace, Denis Sinyakov) Read which substantially raises the limits of liability for More… the death of, or personal injury to, a passenger on ! a ship, enters into force on 23 April 2014 - IMO. AUSTRALIAN NAVY sailors patrolling the coast of The higher limits of liability will apply to ships Africa have seized more registered in the following States which have than 1 tonne of heroin on a ratified the 2002 treaty: Albania, Belgium, Belize, suspicious sailing boat - Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Latvia, Malta, ABC News Australia. the Netherlands, Norway, Palau, Panama, Saint The Navy estimates the Kitts and Nevis, Serbia, Syrian Arab Republic and street value of the heroin at the United Kingdom. $290 million. Additionally, the Convention is mandatory for Crew from HMAS Darwin boarded the wooden European Union Member States (including those boat east of Kenya and discovered 46 sacks of that have not ratified the Athens Protocol regime heroin hidden among bags of cement. yet as individual States) to the extent that the The Navy says the drugs from the dhow were European Union has competence over matters taken onboard HMAS Darwin. governed by the Protocol, as the European Union The ship's commander Terry Morrison says the has ratified the treaty under a novel article in the heroin seizure will put a dent in terrorist funding Protocol which allows for a Regional Economic networks. Integration Organization, which is constituted by "These drugs have now been seized and are sovereign States that have transferred about to be destroyed," he said. competence over certain matters governed by this Protocol to that Organization, to sign, ratify,

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"It's well known that these drugs assist terrorist officer told Reuters. organisations through funding so that they can The Sewol ferry sank last Wednesday on a routine conduct violent acts. Read More… trip south from the port of Incheon to the PHOTO: The big haul of heroin seized from a traditional honeymoon island of Jeju. Of the 476 suspicious boat by Australian sailors from the passengers and crew on board, 339 were children Australian Navy frigate HMAS Darwin. (Australian and teachers on a high school outing. Only 174 Navy: ABIS Sarah Williams) people have been rescued and the remainder are !Court Matters !all presumed to have drowned. Read More… THE NUMBER of crew members charged is rising, South Korean Ferry and so is the anger that families feel. ! But there's one crew member they are leaving out: WITH IMAGES of grief and loss still dominating Park Jee Young, 22, who by witness accounts South Korean coverage of the ferry sinking, there helped them escape and distributed life jackets -- is growing anger and soul-searching in the press one after the other to students -- as the stricken about what caused the disaster - BBC News ferry began to sink - CNN. Asia. When she ran out of jackets, she ran to the next Many papers are focusing on how the disaster floor to grab more. and the loss of the bereaved has united Koreans. When she was asked why she wasn't wearing a Among them is Dong A Ilbo, which says that as life jacket, Park said that crew members would be parents "have to live on thinking about their last and that she had to help others first, children who will never come back home, all according to witness accounts to South Korean Koreans are shedding tears with them". media. The English-language Korea Herald daily says a Park now lies in a funeral home in the city of "mixture of sorrow, anger and desperation Incheon. prevails", and that many central and local She is one of the 87 people dead; 215 remain governments have postponed meetings and missing. public events. The other day, a man with injuries to his head But set against the mood of mourning, anger over showed up to the funeral room where Park's the causes of the sinking is gradually coming to memorial stands. the fore. When asked by Park's family who he was, the Korea Herald quotes Oh Mi-jin, a 37-year-old man said that he had been injured in the ferry and mother as saying she believes ferry operators and that he was "indebted" to the young woman who maritime authorities could have responded much placed a towel on his bloody head and helped him better in the initial moments after the accident. as the water rose. Read More… !Read More… THE FIRST distress call from a sinking South Korean ferry was made by a boy with a shaking voice to a fire station, three minutes after the vessel made its fateful last turn - Hindustan Times. That call was forwarded to the coastguard two minutes later and was followed by about 20 others by phone from children to the fire brigade, a fire station

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AS THE ferry sank, some crew members gave CONCERNS ARE growing among anguished their lifejackets to passengers. One refused to families that the bodies of those who died in the leave until she shepherded students off the ship, sinking of a South Korean ferry may never be and was later found dead. Others worked from found, as search teams suspended work today rescue boats to break windows with hammers and because of bad weather - New Straits Times. pull people trapped in cabins to safety - The A looming storm and high tides put a temporary Guardian. halt to operations to recover the remains of more Nearly a week after the sinking of the South than 100 people still missing over a week after the Korean ferry – with rising outrage over a death huge ferry capsized. count that could eventually top 300 – the public “Over the weekend, strong wind and rain is verdict against the crew of the Sewol has been expected in the Jindo area”, a coastguard savage and quick. "Cowards!" social media users spokesman told journalists. howled. "Unforgivable, murderous," South Korea's “As efforts to find the missing people are president, Park Geun-hye, said on Monday of the becoming protracted, there are growing concerns captain and some crew. among their families that bodies might be lost for Some fled the ferry, including the captain, but not good”, he said. all. At least seven of the 29 crew members are The confirmed death toll stood today at 187, with missing or dead, and several of those who 115 unaccounted for — many bodies are believed survived stayed on or near the ship to help trapped in the ferry that capsized on April 16 with passengers. 476 people on board. Read More… "His last words were: 'I'm on my way to save the ! kids,'" Ahn So-hyun told reportersof what her husband, missing crew member Yang Dae-hong, Missing Malaysian told her by cellphone as the ship began to sink. Aircraft He was referring to the 323 high school students on the ferry, which was carrying a total of 476 AUSTRALIAN OFFICIALS are people. Read More… hammering out a new agreement put forward by ! the Malaysian government that will set out critical DIVERS SEARCHING the wreck of a sunken ferry guidelines in the search for the missing Malaysia in the Yellow Sea are finding cabins overfilled with Airlines plane - CNN. people, but they are encountering major obstacles The proposed framework details how Australia will in recovering bodies, South Korean officials said continue to lead search efforts for Flight 370 and Friday - CNN. governs how parts of the investigation will play Divers found 48 girls wearing life jackets in a cabin out over the coming weeks and months under with a capacity of 30, indicating many ran into the various scenarios, including if and when same room when ship tilted. components of the aircraft are found. The ship is currently on the sea floor and resting The proposal addresses three main points, said with its right side up, the rescue operation Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian commander Capt. Kim Jin-hwang South Korea Transport Safety Bureau: Navy told reporters. • Handling of debris: The framework outlines the He said most windows have now been broken out chain of custody for any wreckage, including a on the fourth level of the ship where most specific location where the debris will be taken passengers were believed to be trapped. Read and protocol for its handling and examination. More… • Care of human remains: The proposal addresses ! sensitive questions of how any human remains ! found in the southern Indian Ocean will be recovered and treated. • Widening the search: The document discusses how best to deploy resources, including new

OCEANUSLive Information, Security, Safety; Shared 12 OL Newsletter 17/14 25 April 2014 underwater search assets, in a considerably wider Adding to the mystery: Hijackers or renegade search area, if the current series of underwater pilots cannot disable emergency beacons. They missions by the Bluefin-21 fail to uncover any sign are powered by batteries and inaccessible to the of the flight data recorders or other debris. crew. So by all accounts, the beacon on Flight 370 "The Australian government is currently should have activated if the plane crashed. considering that proposal from the Malaysians But experts consulted by CNN say there are and will respond as quickly as possible," Dolan numerous reasons why a beacon could fail in an said. "We hope to have resolved this within the ocean crash. next week.” Read More… The beacon itself could be damaged by the ! impact, or its antenna could be sheared from the MALAYSIA’S FIRST report into the disappearance fuselage, rendering it inoperable. of flight MH370 will be released next week. And there's one other possibility considered even The country’s Prime Minister Najib Razak, made more likely by some: The crash impact may have the announcement as the search continues for actually activated the beacon, but the damaged wreckage from the flight - International Business plane sank in less than 50 seconds, the time News. necessary for it to transmit its first emergency The government has been signal. The beacons do not work underwater. besieged by angry Read More… relatives of the missing ! passengers, many of who refuse to accept the Pirates in Court plane was destroyed without irrefutable Seaman Guard Ohio Crew evidence. ! Razak told CNN, “I have directed an internal PIRATE buster Billy Irving has revealed he investigation team of experts to look at the report, survived his Indian prison ordeal by composing and there is a likelihood that next week we could songs for his girlfriend on a plastic bagpipe release the report.” chanter - Daily Record. It has been seven weeks since the Malaysia Billy Irving, 33, from Airlines jet vanished off the radar without trace, Connel, near Oban, however Razak said he was not prepared to was arrested along declare that the flight had been lost for good “out with 34 fellow crew of respect” for the grieving families. Read More… members in October ! after claims their ship IT IS one of the most enduring mysteries of strayed into Indian Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and for the families, waters illegally and had weapons on board. it's a reason for hope - CNN. He was finally granted conditional bail last month Why didn't Flight 370's emergency beacon work? with 32 of his colleagues from the US–owned Why didn't the beacon send a distress signal to Seaman Guard Ohio after six months in Puzhal satellites overhead? Jail in Chennai while he awaits trial. And the clincher: Why, if the beacon is designed The former British soldier, who had an emotional to activate on impact, should we believe there reunion with girlfriend Yvonne MacHugh after she was an impact? Could the plane have landed flew out to be by his side, said his military intact? Could the 239 passengers and crew still background also helped him survive the atrocious be alive? jail conditions. The issue resonates with some family members In his first full interview since being released, Billy looking for hope where little exists. Of the 26 said: "We are all ex–forces and we've been in questions families recently presented to the some bad places so we found a way to deal with Malaysian government, 12 addressed the beacon. things.

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The men were three to a cell and, instead of a bed or even a mattress, had to sleep on the concrete Private Security floor. Billy added: "The toilet was a hole in the floor and THIS FEATURE is special to our Private Military we just had two blankets, one for sleeping on and Contractor (PMC)’s Week - a look at PMCs’ utility one to cover us. We got little thin mattresses at and future, especially in the maritime domain - the end of January because a lot of the guys were CIMSEC. getting sores and body pains after months on a In the first part [http://cimsec.org/whither-the- concrete floor but we had to pay for them. Read pmscs/] of this article we briefly explored the long More… history of private maritime security companies ! (PMSCs) in South and Southeast Asia, as well as THE MADRAS High Court started hearing last the conditions most conducive to their Tuesday on an appeal filed by AdvanFort to quash sustainment and growth. In part two we look at charges against the US-based maritime security regional factors that have or could lessen the firm’s possession of firearms, and the court has threats to which PMSCs provide services in granted orders enabling the charge sheet to be response - including government action, capacity “stayed”, according to AdvanFort. building, and legal regimes – and will conclude In legal terms having the charge sheet “stayed” with final thoughts on the outlook for PMSCs in means that the current judicial proceedings are the region. suspended or that the prosecution is stopped until Perhaps the largest mitigating factor for PMSCs’ certain events or actions occur. With the case of prospects is the whether governments will the charges against AdvanFort’s crew members, themselves tackle the underlying issues, including the proceedings are stopped until the quash economic development, instability, and corruption, petition hearing scheduled on June 10, 2014. and/or their outgrowths that PMSCs attempt to The Court has granted interim orders involving address, such as piracy and maritime crime. This the Arms Act and this have resulted in the charge factor consists of and can be measured by both sheet being stayed, which means that the case the desire and ability of governments to take on cannot proceed in the mean time until it is heard these challenges. by the High Court. Whether PMSC or VPD, Italy’s experience in the In addition to the quash hearing, AdvanFort has Enrica Lexie case is illustrative of the legal filed a petition to exempt the 35 from appearance dangers in the region facing embarked before the Magistrate for every 15 days, which the detachments. In February 2012, two Italian Court has granted after the hearing. Marines – part of a VPD – shot and killed a pair of ! Indian fishermen they believed to be pirates. The case has tested the belief that sovereign actors ! provide greater legal protection for counter-piracy teams in international waters and is still working its way through India’s legal system with a trial !date scheduled for July. Read More… !

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outlooks in a changing meteorological climate - International OCEANUSLive. This global report on maritime piracy has Response identified several important trends related to maritime security. Based on a refined and detailed ON MONDAY 21 April 2014, the Seychelles High analysis of primarily data from International level Committee on Piracy (HLCP) conducted their Maritime Organization (IMO) Global Integrated second meeting for this year, at the Ministry of Shipping Information System (GISIS) «Piracy and Foreign Affairs OCEANUSLive. The meeting was Armed Robbery» module - International Maritime held to review and debate ongoing discussions Organization (IMO) Global Integrated Shipping and presentations regarding Seychelles’ approach Information System (GISIS) - UNITAR has been to maritime security. The meeting also provided an able to explore how trends in geospatial patterns opportunity for the committee to review ongoing and severity of reported piracy incidents are cooperation between Seychelles and Japan. The developing, from 1995 to 2013. Some detailed first meeting for the HLCP was held on Thursday geospatial analyses focus on the period 23 January 2014. 2006-2013 due to improved records for geo- Following the first piracy attack on a Seychelles- locating incidents. Read Full Report (pdf) Read flagged catamaran – the “Serenity”, in February More… 2009, with three Seychellois hostages aboard, the President of the Republic of Seychelles, Mr. James Michel, established a 12- member High Level Committee on Piracy (HLCP) mandated to implement the national anti-piracy plan. Despite recording several attempts by pirate groups against vessels off the coast of Somalia and Gulf of Aden for this year, the pirates have been unsuccessful in taking any ships or crew !hostage to date. Read More… THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce’s Piracy Costs International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has revealed that piracy on the world’s seas is at its lowest FOLLOWING A five year engagement by the first-quarter level since 2007, but warns that the United Nations Institute for Training and Research threat is still present. The latest IMB Piracy (UNITAR) to conduct applied research and Report, published today, shows 49 piracy geospatial analysis on piracy activities, this report incidents in the first quarter of 2014 – the lowest constitutes the first global geospatial analysis on first quarter figure since 2007, when 41 incidents the issue. What started with identifying captured were recorded. ships delivering humanitarian assistance and In the first three months, two vessels were other goods using satellite imagery later hijacked, 37 vessels boarded, five vessels fired expanded to regional geospatial analyses for the upon and five attempted attacks were reported. western Indian Ocean. The current report Forty-six crewmembers were taken hostage and assesses piracy at the global level. This research two kidnapped from their vessel. includes detailed geo-spatial analyses, while Off Somalia, five incidents were reported – the relating findings to complementary factors, same number as the first quarter of 2013. In 2014, including references to specific examples three attempted attacks were recorded and two illustrating the complexity of the piracy issue. The vessels fired upon. IMB Director Pottengal report also covers the financial aspects of global Mukundan stated “Although the number of piracy, as well as anti-piracy activities and future

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countries - Science Direct. These illegal imports INDONESIAN FOREIGN minister Marty are valued at between $1.3 and $2.1 billion, out of Natalegawa has again protested against a total of $16.5 billion for the 2.3 million tonnes of Australia's hardline policy on asylum seekers, the edible seafood imports, including farmed Jakarta Post has reported - IHS Maritime 360. products. This trade represents between 4% and Speaking at the two-day International Workshop 16% of the value of the global illegal fish catch on the Protection of the Irregular Movement of and reveals the unintentional role of the USA, one Persons at Sea, co-chaired by Indonesia and the of the largest seafood markets in the world, in United Nations refugee agency in Jakarta, funding the profits of illegal fishing. Supply chain Natalegawa said governments should stop case studies are presented for tuna, wild shrimp "shifting responsibility". and Chinese re-processed Russian pollock, The workshop comes only days after Australia salmon and crab imported to the USA. To address announced one naval officer had been stripped of this critical issue of unintended financing of illegal his command, another administratively fishing, possible remedies from industry practices sanctioned, and five others reprimanded after and government policies may include improved 'inadvertently' breaching Indonesian waters during chain of custody and traceability controls and an a tow back operation earlier this year. amendment to the USA Lacey Act. At the same time, The Guardian Australia reported Download full report Read More… that the Australian Customs ship Ocean Protector had gone 9km into Indonesian waters, much !further than previously disclosed. Read More… THE GLOBAL Oceans Action Summit for Food Security and Blue Growth will take place from 22-25 April 2014, in The Hague, The Netherlands. The Summit is organized by the Government of The Netherlands, in close collaboration with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Bank and the Governments of Grenada, Indonesia, Mauritius, Norway and the US - IISD. The Summit will identify steps towards critical internationally agreed targets for fisheries, aquaculture, habitat protection and pollution reduction. The Summit will also: highlight the need to address the next frontiers of successful integrated approaches, including public-private partners; take stock of previous important regional and thematic ocean conferences; and deliver a pathway towards prime positioning for the oceans on the international development agenda. Read !More… !

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A DRUNK passenger tried to break into the cockpit of a Virgin Australia flight today, an airline official said. The plane landed safely on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, and the passenger was taken into custody - ABC News. Heru Sudjatmiko, airport manager for Virgin Australia, told Metro TV on Friday that the passenger was acting aggressively and was handcuffed by the crew. Virgin Australia released a statement about the situation, saying, "At no point was the safety of the aircraft in question." "There was a disruptive passenger on board and the pilot notified authorities in advance of landing, as per standard operating procedures," the statement reads. Read More…

OCEANUSLive Information, Security, Safety; Shared 17 OL Newsletter 17/14 25 April 2014 Piracy Incidents Unsuccessful Attacks/ Robberies (All regions): Hijacks: ! • SE Asia - St Kitts-Nevis-flagged, Singapore- • SE Asia - Around 20 robbers in two boats managed tanker, Naniwa Maru No.1, was boarded an anchored bulk carrier in position boarded and hijacked by around 10 heavily 21:51.5N – 091:40E, Chittagong OPL, armed pirates (pistols and machetes) at 0055 LT Bangladesh. The robbers broke into the forward in position 02:59N – 100:54E, 3NM WNW of stores, stole ship’s property and escaped. The One Fathom Bank, off Port Klang, Malacca ship’s attempt to contact the coast guard failed Strait. The pirates transferred and stole part of but message was relayed by another ship in the the fuel cargo (estimated 3 million litres, of the 5 vicinity. Reported (IMB) 24 Apr. million litres of diesel on board the vessel, were • Gulf of Guinea - Three persons in a skiff transferred over a span of several hours) into approached an anchored tanker carrying out two smaller unknown tankers. Pirates subdued STS operations at 1956 LT in position 06:17N – and tied up crew members. Crew and ship 003:21E, 6.3nm SSW of Lagos breakwater, properties were stolen and ship communication Nigeria. They attempted to board the vessel via equipment damaged. The pirates kidnapped the anchor chain. Alert Nigerian security guard three Indonesian crew members (captain, chief raised the alarm and fired a warning shot engineer and one other crewman) and escaped. resulting in the robbers moving away. Reported The vessel and remaining crew safely arrived at (IMB) 23 Apr. Port Klang. Reported (IMB) 22 Apr. • SE Asia - Robbers boarded an anchored Bahamas-flagged product tanker, SKS Darent, at 0300 LT in position 01:24.4N - 104: 34.8E, 11nm North of Bintan Island, Indonesia. Robbers stole ship property and escaped unnoticed. The robbery was noticed by duty watchman on routine rounds. Reported (IMB) 21 Apr. • Gulf of Guinea - An unlit suspicious craft underway with a speed of six knots, suddenly altered course, increased speed and approached a passing LNG tanker underway at 2220 UTC in position 03:41N – 006:18E, around 37nm South of Brass, Nigeria. Master onboard the LNG tanker raised alarm, increased speed, • SE Asia - LATE Report | A Thailand-flagged altered course, fire hoses activated and crew product tanker, Sri Phang Nga, was boarded directed search lights towards the craft. After and hijacked by around 16 heavily armed around 10 minutes the suspicious craft stopped pirates at 2010 LT in position 01:59.8N – the approach and altered course. MRCC Lagos, 104:25.4E, 26nm SSW of Pulau Aur, Malaysia. Nigeria informed. Reported (IMB) 20 Apr. The pirates then transferred and stole part of the • SE Asia - [Boarding/Robbery] Two robbers in a fuel cargo into smaller unknown tankers. Crew small craft approached and boarded an and ship properties were stolen and ship anchored product tanker at 0307 LT in position communication equipment damaged. Master 01:26N – 104:38E, around 12nm NNE of Pulau sustained minor injuries. Master and crew Bintan, Indonesia. Duty A/B on routine rounds managed to repair the damage and proceed to noticed the robbers and informed the OOW who a safe port in Cambodia. Reported (IMB) 17 Apr. raised the alarm. All crew mustered and a ! search was carried out throughout the tanker

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and found that ship’s engine spares were missing. Incident reported to MPA Singapore. Other Incidents: Reported (IMB) 20 Apr. ! NSTR • SE Asia - Five robbers armed with knives boarded an anchored general cargo ship at ! 0030 LT in position 03:55N – 098:46E, Belawan Suspicious Activity: Anchorage, Indonesia. They took hostage the ! duty AB on the forecastle and stole his personal • Gulf of Aden - MV reported 4 skiffs towed by a belongings. The incident was noticed by the mothership each w/ 3-4 POB and armed with crew near the stern who informed the bridge. machine guns at 1900 UTC in position Alarm raised and crew mustered. Upon hearing 14:13.54N - 051:07E, IRTC, Gulf of Aden. the alarm, the robbers immediately escaped Embarked AST displayed weapons when craft with the stolen items in their wooden boat. The at 2nm, resulting in skiffs turning away. duty AB received minor injuries. Reported (IMB) Reported (UKMTO but unverified) 23 Apr. 19 Apr. • Gulf of Aden - MV reported approach by 3 white • SE Asia - LATE Report | Duty officer onboard skiffs w/ 14 POB at 1337 UTC in position an anchored bulk carrier noticed three robbers 12:19N - 044:06E, western Gulf of Aden. One trying to board the vessel near the forecastle at skiff remained 2nm from vessel, 2 skiffs closed 1930 LT in position 00:13S –117:35E, to 1300m on port beam. No pirate indicators Samarinda Anchorage, Indonesia. Ship alarm seen. AST displayed weapons and fired 4 flares. raised and all crew mustered. Due to the crew Skiffs moved to 1.2nm astern of the vessel alertness, the robbers escaped without stealing increasing distance. Reported (UKMTO) 22 Apr. anything. Reported (IMB) 18 Apr. ! • SE Asia - LATE Report| Three robbers in a small IMB - Vessels: 0 Hostages: Not stated. (as at 21 boat approached and attempted to board an January). anchored product tanker at 0355 LT in position Worldwide Incidents 2014: 52 reported incidents 09:55N - 076:08E, Kochi Anchorage, India. Duty Somalia - NATO, EUNAVFOR & UKMTO state crew on routine rounds noticed the robbers and Vessels: 0; Hostages: 50; CGPCS - 49 hostages. informed bridge who raised the alarm and crew mustered. Upon hearing the alarm, the robbers aborted the attempted boarding and escaped in their boat. Port Control informed. Reported (IMB) 18 Apr • S America - LATE Report | A Cruising ketch at anchor at 0230 LT in approx position 08:46.27N - 079:32.53W, off southern end of Taboga Island, Panama was attacked by three robbers. The Captain heard voices beside the boat and entered the cockpit to check. One robber had boarded the vessel despite a warning from the Captain. Five shots were fired from the robbers 26’ vessel causing damage to the ketch but no injury to the crew. The crew responded and the robbers, overwhelmed by the response, quickly fled. The Captain immediately weighed anchor, heading for Las Playta de Amador. Reported (Noonsite) 14 Mar. • !

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