Pirates fire on US cruise ship in hijack attempt

[jasmith52]

What's the world coming to ?...

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081202/ap_on_re_af/piracy

[jhannah]

Terrible, isn't it. This was posted here yesterday with "Holy Moley" as the thread title.

[Williebill]

It sounds like these pirates are getting more daring as time goes by.

[NapTown Jim]

Oceania is a US company?

[Mary Ellen]

Oceania is a US company?

You can check out what Wikipedia has to say for yourself. From their website the headquarters is in Maimi.

[NapTown Jim]

For some reason I thought they were Australian since Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

[Copper10-8]

Oceania is a US company?

 

Oceania Cruises is a United States-based shipping company that operates three luxury cruise ships on world-wide itineraries. It is currently the world’s largest upscale cruise line, offering good-quality food and itineraries at a cheap price when compared to other upscale cruise lines. Since April 2007, Oceania Cruises is owned by Apollo Management.

Apollo Management L.P. is a. private equity Limited Partnership firm, founded in 1990 by Leon Black. At the same time, he founded Apollo Advisors with co-partners John Hannan, Marc Rowan, and Joshua Harris. Based in New York City, Apollo also has offices in Purchase, New York, Los Angeles, CA and London, England. The firm has invested over $16 billion in companies inside and outside the United States.

Oceania Cruises was founded in 2002 by luxury cruise industry veterans Joe Watters and Frank Del Rio, the latter being the former vice president of Renaissance Cruises. The founding management team included industry veterans Bob Binder, Robin Lindsay, James Rodriguez, and Howard Sherman. The company chartered the former Renaissance Cruises ship R Two from Cruiseinvets and renamed her Insignia in October 2002. In April 2003, the Insignia was chartered to the French travel agency TRM for three months, during which Oceania Cruises operated no vessels.

On 15 June 2003, Oceania Cruises re-commenced service with two ships: the Insignia was renamed Regatta and a new ship (R One, a sister ship of the Insignia/Regatta, also chartered from Cruiseinvest) entered service as the new Insignia.

In November 2005, a third R-class ship entered service for Oceania Cruises when the company chartered the R Five from Cruiseinvest and renamed her Nautica. At the naming ceremony of the Nautica, Frank del Rio announced the plan of adding a fourth ship, Marina, to the Oceania Cruises fleet in July 2007. This however did not come to pass.

In February 2007, the majority of Oceania Cruises' stock were sold to New York-based Apollo Management. The following month Oceania made a memorandum agreement with the Fincantiero shipyard in Italy to construct two new 1,260-passenger ships. The contract was finalised in June 2007, with delivery dates for the new Oceania Class ships set for September 2010 and July 2011. The contract also includes an option for a third vessel of the same type that could be delivered in May 2012.

[nurseblissful]

hungry people do some terrible things. especially when they have nothing to lose. does anyone remember this happening a couple of years ago and the captain tried to run them over? bet that pirate needed to change his britches...can you imagine one of those huge cruise ships bearing down on you.....:eek:

[Copper10-8]

hungry people do some terrible things. especially when they have nothing to lose. does anyone remember this happening a couple of years ago and the captain tried to run them over? bet that pirate needed to change his britches...can you imagine one of those huge cruise ships bearing down on you.....:eek:

 

The problem with that is that even with a huge cruise ship bearing down on you, an RPG round which btw, is one of these low life's favorite weapons, can do lots of damage to that ship as well as cause injuries and/or death to its crew and passengers. In this last incident, these so called 'pirates' indiscriminantly fired a volley of AK-47-type rounds at a cruise ship with no regards for innocent life(s). Not so sure, these nice guys are either hungry or underfed either.

[FRANKIEDNYC]

:confused: I DON'T KNOW HOW HUNGRY THEY CAN BE, AS THEY HAVE COLLECTED MILLIONS IN RANSOMS JUST THIS YEAR. I WONDER WHERE ALL THAT MONEY IS GOING.

[Roboat]

The Nautica escaped by outrunning the pirates, speeding up as two small pirate skiffs tried to close in, said Tim Rubacky, spokesman for Oceania Cruises, Inc., which owns the Nautica.

 

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He noted that the ship, which communicates with international coalition forces,

will return through the Gulf of Aden. Asked why the ship will re-enter pirate-infested waters, Rubacky said: "We believe this was an isolated incident."

 

Dang, that's over 100 isolated incidents this year! :cool:

 

 

Perhaps Suite pax are issued M16's and 4 magazines per adult. N-class GUAR pax must man the boiling oil vats when it is necessary to repel boarders. (Seaborne ships each carry their own AH64 Apache gunship.)

[tomc]

If you subcribe to CND, you will see why this is an isolated incident and also why the pirates (an organized group, btw), do not find it financially or strategically feasible.

 

Guys probably happened to be out there, bored, and said, "Hey! Let's bother the cruise ship."

[richnorto]

Heard on FOX News a few days ago that the pirates are building the nicest mansions (with incredible security I'm sure) in the cities/towns! Guess they're NOT starving!:eek: