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		<title>Secretary LaHood Reminds Mariners of Best Practices Following Recent Attacks on the Maersk Alabama and M/V Harriett</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today reminded mariners about the importance of taking necessary precautions and implementing best practices in the wake of recent attacks on the M/V Harriett and Maersk Alabama off the coast of Somalia.
“These ships’ successful defense against pirates should serve as a reminder to the maritime industry of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/secretary-lahood-reminds-mariners/</link>
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		<title>Maersk Alabama Thwarts Another Pirate Attack Using Armed Guards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update:
Release via EU NAVFOR:
On the early morning of 18 November 2009, 350 nautical miles east from the Somali coast, pirates attacked MV Maersk Alabama, a US flagged, Danish owned, 155 meter long, Container ship.
Pirates fired automatic weapons on MV Maersk Alabama who responded with fire from an embarked Vessel Protection Detachment. The crew managed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/maersk-armed-guards/</link>
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		<title>New UAV Architecture for Urban &amp; Maritime Environments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve talked about Unmanned Aerial Vehicals (UAV&#8217;s) here before on gCaptain particularly associated with piracy off the horn of Africa.  Here is a look at a new VTOL [Vertical Take-Off &#38; Landing], UAV concept specifically targeted at urban, mountainous and maritime environments.
More on this can be found HERE and HERE
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		<link>http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/architecture-urban-maritime-environments/</link>
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		<title>News Update: M/V Arctic Sea</title>
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Moscow &#8211; There were no weapons being smuggled on board the hijacked &#8220;Arctic Sea&#8221; freighter according to the conclusions of a Russian investigation into the vessel, reported the Interfax news agency on Wednesday. Speculation has mounted ever since 
the ship went missing on July 24, to be subsequently rescued by Russian forces on August 17, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/news-update-arctic/</link>
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		<title>Ship Photo of The Week &#8211; Might Servant 1 Transiting the Gulf of Aden</title>
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Between the 13th and the 14th of September, the Dockwise semi-submersible, heavy-marine transport vessel, Mighty Servant 1, was safely escorted by EUNAVFOR warships through the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC) in the pirate infested waters of the Gulf of Aden.
The Mighty Servant 1 is currently transporting the Hull of the North Sea Gjøa platform from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/ship-photo-week-servant-transiting/</link>
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		<title>U.S. signing anti-piracy agreement at UN</title>
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Washington, D.C. &#8211; Sept. 9, 2009
In a September 9 keynote address to the ComDef 2009 defense policy conference in Washington, D.C., Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew J. Shapiro announced that later in the day, the United States will sign the “New York Declaration,” a non-binding political document committing ship registry states to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/u-s-signing-anti-piracy-agreement/</link>
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		<title>Maritime Administration Warns of Likely Increase in Piracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sep 9 2009
The Maritime Administration today issued an advisory to mariners and ship operators that piracy is likely to increase off the Horn of Africa and in the Indian Ocean now that monsoon season has ended.
“We must apply the lessons learned from the crew of the Maersk Alabama,” said Acting Maritime Administrator David Matsuda, referring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/maritime-administration-warns/</link>
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		<title>Somali Pirates Fire on Navy Helicopter &#8211; Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somali pirates aboard a hijacked ship fired at a U.S. Navy helicopter yesterday, Navy officials said.
According to the Navy, the helicopter from the USS Chancellorsville was not hit, there were no injuries and the helicopter did not return fire.
The chopper received fire while on a surveillance flight over a Taiwanese-flagged vessel that pirates had captured [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/somali-pirates-fire-navy-helicopter/</link>
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		<title>Casualty Outlook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three serious incidents have dominated the past week with the disappearance of the Arctic Sea, its cargo of timber valued at a little under $2m and its crew of more than a dozen Russian seafarers, garnering most of the bandwidth. That’s only natural, given the mysterious circumstances.
The trouble with speculating about what’s happened to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/casualty-outlook-3/</link>
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		<title>Piracy in European Waters?</title>
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With piracy along the horn of Africa creating such a buzz in the media, it is a common misconception that the act is confined to this area where onshore conditions have forced many into a life of hijacking ships for ransom.  In reality, a look back at the International Maritime Bureau&#8217;s Live Piracy Maps from [...]]]></description>
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