2008 Pirates Chase Cruise Ship

There was one case in 2009 when pirates captured a cruise ship but quickly released it when they realized there were no passengers aboard.

2008 pirates chase cruise ship. Pirates Fire on a Cruise Ship. NAIROBI Kenya The luxury American cruise ship steaming across the Gulf of Aden with hundreds of well-heeled tourists just might have been too much for Somali pirates to resist. Oceanias Nautica is the second cruise ship this year to have been confronted by pirates this year.

Other ships have not been so lucky. CNN -- A 30000-ton luxury cruise ship outran pirates off the coast of Yemen this weekend the ships owner said Monday. Almost 100 vessels have been attacked off Somalia this year which includes the capture by Somali pirates of the 330-metre Sirius Star carrying 2 million barrels of oil.

But according to Danish TV2 News six to eight armed pirates on two speed boats were observed speeding toward the Nautica a cruise liner that had set sail from Florida. Piracy off the coast of SomaliaFishing communities responded by forming armed groups to deter the invaders by hijacking commercial vessels. The next attempt came in November 2012 when several small boats approached Azamara.

30 pirates fired upon the MS Nautica a cruise liner carrying 650 passengers and 400 crew but the massive ship outran its assailants. 2 2008 433 AM PST Source. A Danish navy spokesman refused to name the vessel involved but a Danish media report said the cruise ship Nautica carrying 400 passengers and 200 crew was the target of the latest attack by Somali pirates.

The cruise ship is owned by Miami based Oceania Cruises and was. The vessel which was bound for Iran with a cargo of sugar from Brazil is owned by an Iranian company. The newspaper reports that the two skiffs ended their pursuit only when a shipboard private security team fired warning flares at the craft.

In April a three-masted luxury vessel Le Ponant was seized. Somali pirates attack and chase cruise ship carrying British tourists. NAIROBI Kenya AP Pirates chased and shot at an American cruise ship with more than 1000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by.