Apollo is Sweating Grenades

[AFT_LOVER]

NCL's cousin with Apollo's cruiselines, Oceania Nautica was cruising to India when the pirates attacked them in the Sea of Aden per Fox News. 8 shots were fired by 2 speeding boats but Oceania Nautica's Captain fired the pods to race past them. They may be cancelling all Indian ports. Mumbia was cancelled for Monday. Everyone on her is fine and many of the cruisers got quite a show to tell everyone with. hey had no word of where they will be going to.

[ohioNCLcruiser]

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/cruises/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=59258324.blog

[AuntieBarb]

It is a sad situation, but best they stay clear of the region. I agree, there may come a day they won't be able to avoid them.

[AFT_LOVER]

since missile launcher could be next. Mumbai is stating that Pakistanis were the hated ones that blew up hotel & murdered people. They have hated them & with USA as good friends that put us in worse waters. With Norway dying in their waters & the tsnumai in the near area, we will say NO to cruises going there.

[sweethrt7985]

NCL's cousin with Apollo's cruiselines, Oceania Nautica was cruising to India when the pirates attacked them in the Sea of Aden per Fox News. 8 shots were fired by 2 speeding boats but Oceania Nautica's Captain fired the pods to race past them. They may be cancelling all Indian ports. Mumbia was cancelled for Monday. Everyone on her is fine and many of the cruisers got quite a show to tell everyone with. hey had no word of where they will be going to.

 

 

Wow.. can you imagine being on a cruise and coming across Pirates?!? I wonder if they really say "argh!"

Sorry, I know it's not funny, but it just got me thinkin

[AuntieBarb]

Wow.. can you imagine being on a cruise and coming across Pirates?!? I wonder if they really say "argh!"

Sorry, I know it's not funny, but it just got me thinkin

 

I've looked for pirates from our balcony on a few occasions, but unfortunately Captain Jack Sparrow was always somewhere else! ;)

 

All kidding aside.......These are the ones I hope never to encounter.

[arielmurphy]

The Spirit is in a better position to handle pirates as it has water canons and some kind of live ammunition weapons on the ship. Remember it was build for the Asian market and they did have a pirate problem. Argh - sorry couldn't help myself.

[CruisinMatt]

The Seabourn Spirit (which is mentioned in the article as being attacked three years ago) - Just recently sailed through those waters with French naval vessels along side. See the Seabourn boards for the thread with pictures.

 

Thank God nobody was hurt in this attack.

[CC Help Michell]

Personally I too would avoid cruising in this volatile region of the world at this time, but I'd point out that prior to the Mumbai attacks nobody apparently had any information/intelligence that the city was about to become a target, and the country wasn't elevated in US State Department alerts, etc.

 

You can plan life as best you can, but sometimes it's a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, like the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. By the way, I wouldn't consider the tsunami a factor in deciding where to cruise, and I can't imagine why anyone would, as someone posted above. How can people who think a previous natural disaster is grounds to avoid a region actually travel... well... anywhere? Or for that matter live... well... anywhere? Natural disasters happen all over the globe -- floods, earthquakes, earthquakes + tsunamis, hurricanes, typhoons, tornados, cyclones, forest fires, droughts, volcanoes, and on and on.

[G'ma]

The Seaborn Spirit ran pirates off with this device:

 

http://www.physorg.com/news146486516.html

 

Looks like this will be pretty popular for those shipping companies and cruise companies who are interested in repelling these leeches.

[terrymtex01]

It is so sad.. but I feel it is just a matter of time before one is captured. I honestly have fears of that no matter which itinenary we sail on. Can you imagine the money they would get for having pax from around the world?