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Subject: [worldcruising] Re: Routes to UK
burns98@XXX.XXX
Date: Tue Jan 09 2001 - 19:44:38 EST
I think this story might be real:
http://www.searoom.com/red_sea_pirates.htm
Best,
Randy
--- In worldcruising@XXX.XXX> wrote:
> > 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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