Marine Professionals

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Piracy
Captain John L. David Dublin IMCC
2007 26th October 2007
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Introduction

• Piracy goes back to 13th Cent. BC
• Julius Cesar - captured
• St Patrick- Irish Pirates
• Chinese mid-Qing Dynasty
• Stalin (at least twice)
• Vikings were probably the best
• Caribbean Dutch and English

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The Myth
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The Reality
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The Deterrent
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Definitions

• Kidnapping for ransom
• Robbery
• Murder
• Seizure of items/the vessel
• Sabotage leading to sinking

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International Law

• Article 101 UNCLOS
• (a) any illegal acts of violence or detention,
  or any act of depredation, committed for private
  ends by the crew or the passengers of a private
  ship or a private aircraft, and directed
• (i) on the high seas, against another ship
  or aircraft, or against persons or property on
  board such ship or aircraft
• (ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or
  property in a place outside the jurisdiction of
  any State
• (b) any act of voluntary participation in the
  operation of a ship or of an aircraft with
  knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or
  aircraft
• (c) any act of inciting or of intentionally
  facilitating an act described in subparagraph (a)
  or (b).

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Piracy or not?

• Territorial waters - 12 mile limit
• Within the jurisdiction of the state they are not
  pirates, nor is it piracy
• Without commission from a sovereign nation

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Statistics

• IMB Statistical purposes
• Piracy Armed Robbery
• An act of boarding or attempting to board any
  ship with the apparent intent or capability to
  use force in the furtherance of that act.

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Pirates?
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Piracy Practices Today

• Small fast boats/mother ships
• Small Navies major trade routes
• Quick in and out - ruthless
• Money and personal effects
• Cargo/entire vessel/Phantom ships

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Figure To Date

• 15 killed in 2006 (3 still missing)
• 9 months into 2007
• Piracyarmed robbery up14 from 2006
• Nigeria Somalia even more dangerous
• 198 attacks (vs174 same period 2006)
• 15 vessels hijacked 172 hostages
• More than 50 attacks at anchor
• 25 attacks on Bulk Carriers

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Piracy Africa
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Top 10 - 2006

• 239 ships attacked in 2006
• 168 in
• Indonesia (50) Bangladesh (47), Nigeria (12)
  Malacca (11) Somalia (10) Malaysia (10), Red Sea
  (10) Tanzania (9), Peru (9)
• Brasil moving into the charts
• Somalia 26 already this year

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Toys

• Inventus UAV Unmanned plane with a camera
• Secure-Ship Electric fence for ships
• ShipLoc Satellite tracking exact location of
  vessels

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Recent Cases

• ACHILLE LAURO (1985)
• PLO, Egypt, Klinghoffer
• Collision OCEAN BLESSING NAGASAKI
  SPIRIT(1992)
• Hijack, Malacca, autopilot 2 survived
• CHANG SONG (1998)
• Customs, 23 killed, Firing squad
• DANICA WHITE
• 1.4 million ransom

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To Consider?

• Coverage and Claims
• Shot Crew- Malaria
• Cargo cover in jeopardy?
• Delay, damage, SOL cover
• Hull damage weed, leak, maintain
• Off Hire, no stores or fuel, speed performance
• Recovery issues safe voyage?

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Return to Traditional Punishment
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Punishment Change?
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It was a dark and stormy night
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Questions
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Piracy
Captain John L. David Dublin IMCC 2007 26th
October 2007