In this modern age with AIS tracking and global satellite coverage you may ask how a pirate can get away with stealing an entire ship. Occasionally referred to as Seajacking this video shows how legal ships are stolen and redocumented to appear legitimate.
Seajacking and phantom ships:
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Captain John Konrad is co-founder of Unofficial Networks, Editor In Chief of gCaptain, and author of the book Fire On The Horizon. He is a USCG licensed Master of Unlimited Tonnage and, since graduating from SUNY Maritime College, has sailed a variety of ships from ports around the world.
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Capt. came along your blog while searching “Anti-piracy Gadgets Sea”. Yours was the only page to come up.
In 1998 I began to invent tools designed to protect vessels from pirates – the Straites and the Horn waters were my concern. I’m in Japan. A company took my ideas seriously and within one year were praised by the Japanese PM as the most innovative firm in the country.
I am looking for any backers or manufacturers willing to try the gadget ideas. I’m proud to say I saw the scourge these sea rats would become a decade before anybody else. And I understood then the problem of flagging for convenience when it came to asking for help.
If you or anybody else would like to correspond I’d be more than obliged…