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Subject: Re: [worldcruising] Re: Routes to UK
From: Jim Manzari (manzari@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2001 - 14:01:42 EST
> I would suggest a good point of reference would be to look up the
> following URL as regard maritime piracy:
>
> http://www.maritimesecurity.com
It's certainly one of the funniest web-sites around. I was already rolling
on the floor after reading the first line on the first page...
"Welcome to the one and only open-source website dedicated to maritime
security."
"Open-source", what does that mean in the context of piracy? Free program
source code to the crime, perhaps?
And all that really really heavy crime reported by all those "unidentified"
ships around the world.
This one, among many similar reports, made me laugh...
"Guyana: an unidentified bulk carrier was boarded and robbed 12 Sep at 0315
local time while at Everton wharf, New Amsterdam, Guyana. Five persons
armed with guns and knives broke into the paint locker and stole ship?s
stores before escaping in a boat. All attempts to contact police failed.
Wow, someone stole paint from the paint locker, what a dastardly crime!
And we're told about "several young men" just sitting around 200 miles at
sea in the North Atlantic off Madeira waiting for the unfortunate Frenchman
to pass. Whoever wrote this one was smoking the hemp halyards...
"Eastern Atlantic (Madeira): A French yachtsman reported 10 Sep that he
had been boarded 1 Sep about 200 miles north of Funchal while sailing
alone from the Brittany Coast to Madeira. According to the report
several young men boarded the yacht (L?objectif Lune) during the night
and then again the following night...."
There are many more laughable reports like this one, all written in that
Police Gazette prose that we loved when we were kids. The Shadow knows...
Wasn't this the web-site that a few years ago had the scheme of
"registering" yotties (for a fee, of course) so there would be a central
point of contract for the US Coast Guard when it came time to rescue?
Unfortunately my eyes kept rolling back in my head as I read the latest
version of this web-site, so I must have missed this pitch. Or has the
Coast Guard insisted that they have nothing to do with this operation?
Can't help wondering if this guy's mother knows he's playing with her
computer again.
Regards,
Jim Manzari
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