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MAERSK offshore supply tug attacked in Gulf of Mexico
Maritime Bulletin ^ | April 15, 2020 1:51 pm | Erofey Schkvarkin

Posted on 04/16/2020 7:44:58 AM PDT by robowombat

MAERSK offshore supply tug attacked in Gulf of Mexico Erofey Schkvarkin News April 15, 2020 1:51 pm

Offshore tug, supply ship MAERSK TRANSPORTER was attacked and boarded by armed pirates at night Apr 12 in Gulf of Mexico off Cuidad Del Carmen, Mexico, roughly in the same area where 3 days earlier Italian supply ship REMAS was attacked. Attack was carried out in same manner, too.

http://www.maritimebulletin.net/2020/04/14/italian-offshore-ship-boarded-by-armed-pirates-in-mexico-waters-video/

Pirates took several crew as hostages and looted the ship, taking with valuable items. Crew luckily, weren’t hurt.

Offshore tug, supply ship MAERSK TRANSPORTER, IMO 9388649, GT 4678, built 2009, flag Denmark, manager MAERSK SUPPLY SERVICE AS.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: gulf; gulfofmexico; maritimesecurity; mexico; piracy; pirates
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To: Waverunner
In point of fact, you're correct. The Corps has been there, before. The danger area is between Vera Cruz and Campeche. Indicated as Campeche Sound.

Easily within range of air cover from Brownsville and Corpus Christie...

21 posted on 04/16/2020 8:36:59 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Jane Long

Where’s the Coast Guard?....Mexican Coast Guard probably master- minded the attack.


22 posted on 04/16/2020 8:37:13 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: robowombat

Why were they not armed? Who is running that circus ?


23 posted on 04/16/2020 8:44:39 AM PDT by spincaster (ust)
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To: Jane Long

How far out does the Coast Guard go?

Now that we know this is a possibility we need to keep jets at McDill on alert
send them out to destroy the pirates


24 posted on 04/16/2020 9:03:19 AM PDT by RWGinger (Does anyone else really)
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To: Jane Long

The Mexican Coast Guard! About twenty yeas ago I was on a dive boat one Sunday afternoon off Cozumel when we found a dead body floating in the water. We called the Mexican Coast Guard, but were told “Go away, we’re closed”. We had to catch the body in a canvas tarp and haul it to shore. It wasn’t in a condition where we wanted to bring it on board.


25 posted on 04/16/2020 9:20:02 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: PUGACHEV

Sounds like the beginning of an NCIS episode. :-(


26 posted on 04/16/2020 9:25:15 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: robowombat

Yesterday Iranian boats buzzed US Navy ships in international waters in Strait of Hormuz

https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-nearly-a-dozen-iranian-boats-harass-us-navy-vessels-2020-4


27 posted on 04/16/2020 9:28:53 AM PDT by njslim
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To: RWGinger

Only 200 miles, it looks like :- /

The Coast Guard has law enforcement powers within U.S. waters, which extend 200 miles from shores, and on international waters. Coast Guard authority supersedes that of the U.S. Navy in terms of law enforcement — a Coast guard captain can halt, board and even seize any vessel without a warrant, court order or direct orders from a superior, including U.S. Navy vessels.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/coast-guard.htm


28 posted on 04/16/2020 9:31:08 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Stevenc131

Dad was thinking with his little head perhaps?


29 posted on 04/16/2020 10:11:05 AM PDT by elteemike (lable)
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To: robowombat
Cuidad Del Carmen.


30 posted on 04/16/2020 10:20:08 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: wardaddy

Shipping hazard ping.


31 posted on 04/16/2020 10:21:06 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: robowombat

Operation Atalanta - Gulf of Mexico edition


32 posted on 04/16/2020 10:21:18 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: robowombat

Arrrgh, Mateys. The Pirates of the Carribbean be back to loot ships in harm’s way.


33 posted on 04/16/2020 11:30:57 AM PDT by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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To: robowombat

In my fantasies, I dream of an attempted piracy and the ship comes into harbor with the pirates swinging from the cargo hoists.

There’d be a bloody ruckus from the pearl-clutchers but it would send a message, as well as providing the warm and fuzzies to people who think like me.


34 posted on 04/16/2020 1:15:14 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: All

Declare them hostis humani generis and act accordingly.


35 posted on 04/16/2020 1:50:55 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (If elected, Biden will be the first President subject to the 25th amendment upon taking office)
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To: Jane Long

Thanks I did not know that. Good to know
In the moments of a pirate attack unless the CG is near by I say send some F15s from Tyndall AFB


36 posted on 04/16/2020 2:56:31 PM PDT by RWGinger (Does anyone else really)
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To: robowombat

There were an average of 16 pirate attacks each month off Mexico last year. Pirates attack offshore oil rigs, the ships that supply them, and cruise ships, as well as other vessels. No arrests were made.


37 posted on 04/16/2020 3:05:58 PM PDT by x
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To: Rebelbase

This should be readily handled it’s our backyard

Kingsville NAS

Boca Chica

MacDill

Plenty bases close enough plus naval units


38 posted on 04/16/2020 6:04:40 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: wildbill
Arrrgh, Mateys. The Pirates of the Carribbean be back to loot ships in harm’s way.

Dispatch the Navy from Key West to send them to Davey Jones' Locker!

-PJ

39 posted on 04/16/2020 6:16:35 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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