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Shooting to Kill Pirates Risks Blackwater Moment
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-08/shooting-to-kill-pirates-risks-blackwater-moment.html

A Royal Navy team boarding a pirate skiff on the Somali coast.
http://www.bloomberg.com/image/iXu9JpsTtNyY.jpg​

...The threat makes it tough on companies like New York-based Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc., which operates a fleet of 45 carriers, including the Avocet, that transport cargoes of minerals and grains.

The Avocet was traveling from Europe, passing through the Gulf of Aden, between Yemen and Somalia, when the pirates first approached on March 22 last year, said Trident’s Rothrauff, whose company specializes in maritime security. The pirates fired on the ship, but retreated, he said. For the next three days, the pirates followed from a larger vessel they appeared to have hijacked, their skiffs on board ready to be lowered into the water.

By the day of the videotaped shooting, the Avocet had reached a point in the center of the Arabian Sea, an area of the Indian Ocean midway between Somalia and India. Its American security team, which included former U.S. Navy SEALs, had been on alert for 72 hours, using their radar to monitor the location, Rothrauff said in telephone interviews.

Videotaped Battle
A video camera fixed to the helmet of a Trident team leader captured the action over 2 minutes, 54 seconds.

For most of a minute, the team leader speaks by radio from the bridge, instructing other guards to hold fire, before running onto the bridge wing with his assault rifle and ordering warning shots. Then the action begins. The shooting continues with only brief interruptions for the rest of the video.

One of the first shots appears to have killed or incapacitated the boat driver, causing the skiff to crash into the side of the Avocet, according to two former special-forces officers from two different European countries who viewed the video at the request of Bloomberg News. Shooting at the boat continues until the guards spot a second boat and turn their guns on it...
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Cosco Says Vale Shuns Its Vessels on China Mega-Ship Ban
 
India's top court refuses entry to former Exxon Valdez tanker

India's Supreme Court has banned the former Exxon Valdez from entering India, saying the ship involved in one of the worst U.S. oil spills will not be allowed in for dismantling until it has been decontaminated.

The ship, now known as the Oriental Nicety, entered Indian waters last week and was headed for the western Indian state of Gujarat when the Supreme Court gave its order, environmental activist Gopal Krishna said Wednesday.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/05/09/2458224/indias-top-court-refuses-entry.html#storylink=cpy
 
"President Vladimir Putin got right to work and presented a series of new decrees within hours of being sworn in as Russia's new president. According to Norway's Barents Observer, the Arctic figured prominently in his plans to modernize and improve the country's military.

In an armed forces modernization and improvement decree (available in Russian, here), Putin called particularly for a larger naval presence in Russia's Arctic and Far East in order to protect its interests in the increasingly active northern oceans.

The decree is the natural extension of comments Putin made during the presidential campaign. In a February statement published by the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Putin declared his intention to build a Navy capable of serving in the Arctic Ocean and in the Pacific. Increased Arctic militarization by other nations was forcing Russia to act on behalf of its strategic interests, he said.

In April, Russia announced it would begin creating a series of 20 bases for border security and rescue personnel along the Northern Sea Route, most of which is currently unmonitored. The bases are part of a plan to develop the route and make Arctic rescue forces available should an international need arise.

Fostering international Arctic cooperation was also the subject of a post-inauguration decree issued by Putin this week. As part of that goal, the decree orders work to be done on legally registering international borders in the Arctic, including maritime borders and on the continental shelf."

From the Alaska Dispatch.
 


Lest we forget all the marine traffic on our inland waterways:

That's probably 4,000 horsepower of damn big towboat. She's 60 meters in length pushing 1,000 feet worth of barges down the Mississippi.






http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?level0=100
 
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The living standards of the 14th century viz-a-viz China and Europe are about to repeat themselves.
 
 
I see AIVIQ is docked in Seattle. She'll be part of the Shell armada heading north, this summer.
 
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