Piracy: now here’s a subject that is brought up on a regular basis on the pontoons and in the forums – rather less though in boating magazines. It goes without saying that it’s a disturbing subject: we would rather encourage you to set out for a fun trip on your multihull than frighten you… So, we’re not going to talk about individual cases here, or mention heavily armed security guards. The idea is to make you better aware of the risks that you run when you are ocean cruising, and how to be prepared, without letting the paranoia take over.
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Publié le
22/11/2019
Par
Emmanuel van Deth
Numéro :
169
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We thought that they had gone forever, only surviving in 19th century history books, or in literature or the cinema. Unfortunately, the reality was always less romantic, and piracy, which has been around as long as we’ve been sailing, has never really disappeared. And in fact, it has even picked up in recent years, with “crises in neighboring countries spreading out onto the seas”, according to Philippe Hrodej, a lecturer in modern history at the University of Bretagne Sud, in France. Initially it was Somali fishermen who, with no resources and stuck in grinding poverty decided to take advanta…
