Showing posts with label Pirate Weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pirate Weather. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Somali Pirates: A Dry Spell in the Sea Pirate Business

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"For Somali pirates, July was a very bad month" from CSMonitor.com : Since June 19, Somalia’s pirates have not successfully taken...
Monday, June 04, 2012

Somali Pirates: NATO Look at Piracy in High Risk Area

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As the Somali pirate operating area enters the SW Monsoon period, a nice chart from the NATO Shipping Center: Piracy statistics : The stat...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Somali Pirates and Other Piracy: The ONI Weekly Reports

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Good stuff found from the Office of Naval Intelligence (pdfs) . First, a recapture of recent Somali pirate incidents: Now, the weather...
Friday, February 10, 2012

Somali Pirates: Pirate Weather Coming

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As indicated in the Office of Naval Intelligence's Piracy Analysis and Warning Weekly, the weather in the Somali pirate areas of major ...
Monday, January 09, 2012

Somali Pirates: The First Week's Work

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So, in addition to being somewhat thwarted by the re-capture of pirated mother ships by U.S. and Danish units and releasing ships after co...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Using weather forecasting to predict pirate operations

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That's the topic of a paper presented at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in Seattle on Monday by James Hansen, L. Esh...
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Thursday, January 06, 2011

Somali Pirates: Slowed by Weather, Ready to Attack

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From the NATO Shipping Centre (NSC) : Gulf of Aden/Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC). Locally heavier seas in the Gulf o...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Somali Pirates: Higher Winds = Fewer Attacks

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Offshore Somalia is experiencing higher winds this week: Pirate attacks are down. Unless, of course, you are a Swiss flagged ship : It’s bee...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Somali Pirate Activity: Winds and Waves

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Pirate activity is picking up off Somalia and some part of that, as noted here before, is due to a decrease in winds and waves in the Gulf o...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Somali Pirates: Pirate Weather

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Wind charts for offshore Somalia from WeatherOnline . Looks like lighter winds in the Gulf of Aden and a slackening of winds of eastern Soma...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Somali Pirates: Expect more attacks as weather improves

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As mentioned before , as monsoon winds die down off Somalia, expect an increase in pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden and off eastern Somali...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Somali Pirates: Navy Warning to Merchants - Watch Out When the Monsoon Wind Stops

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Just in case there is a slow group of mariners out there off the coast of Somalia, Combined Maritime Forces offers up a thought "Watch ...
Thursday, July 09, 2009

Somali Pirates: Monsoon Attacks

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Conventional wisdom is that the Somali pirates don't attack often during monsoon season. However, as the recent capture of a Turkish sh...