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Avoiding Pirates and Storms - Notes From A Weather Router

Started by gcaptain · 11 months ago

Looking at the piracy chart for 2008 got me reminiscing about recommending routes through the eastern Arabian Sea , Somalia coast, and Gulf of Aden.
Our directive was to work with the Captain to assure a safe voyage. However, like the Captain, we had no way of knowing whether a pirate atta ... Continue reading »

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  • DWsailor

    9 months ago

    I have not personally dealt with choosing between favorable weather and the likelihood of piracy but I do find some comfort when the swells are steep and stacked closely to one another in the Gulf of Aden. Though dhows tend to disappear in the troughs of heavier seas, making them very easy to get too close to, if they were full of armed Somalis rather than the usual heavy weather fishermen aiming an RPG in a seaway would be much harder. It's the blue sky and glassy sea days that worry me.
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  • Kennebec_Captain

    9 months ago

    West bound in July from Singapore to the Suez Canal the weather folks routed me shortest route just north of Socotra but the route recommended by the risk management was longer and further north, it was in very rough SW'ly sea and swell. I send the weather routhing agency the risk management route and told them I was following the safer route not the weather route.

    I though it would be very difficult for anyone to board in the Arabian Sea from a small vessel given the rough seas and our motion. The Gulf of Aden was not as rough of course.
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