UNOSAT published Piracy Map
November 29, 2008 by Akiva
Filed under Maritime Piracy Attacks, Maritime Security, Maritime Security News
The Operational Satellite Applications Program of the UN (UNOSAT) published a satellite map of the pirate attack density in the Gulf of Aden. This 3D perspective map illustrates the relative spatial density of reported pirate incidents in the Gulf of Aden for 2008 (current as of Nov. 21, 2008). Incidents that have occurred within 5km [...]
Pirates sized tug boat Svitzer Korsakov in the Gulf of Aden
February 3, 2008 by Akiva
Filed under Maritime Piracy Attacks
The Russian tug boat Svitzer Korsakov signaled the pirate attack on February 1, 2008 at 1:17 pm from the Gulf of Aden. The Svitzer Korsakov, sailing under the flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, was on her way to the Russian Far Eastern Island of Sakhalin through Singapore [...]