{"id":21307,"date":"2020-11-13T01:09:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T22:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/pirate-attack-italian-navy-protects-tanker-in-gulf-of-guinea\/21307\/"},"modified":"2020-11-13T01:09:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T22:09:28","slug":"pirate-attack-italian-navy-protects-tanker-in-gulf-of-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/pirate-attack-italian-navy-protects-tanker-in-gulf-of-guinea\/21307\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Attack: Italian Navy Protects Tanker in Gulf of Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The incident took place November 7 when pirates in a speed boat chased the tanker Torm Alexandra.\u00a0A helicopter crew from the nearby Italian Navy frigate Martinengo was launched and upon arriving on scene found a pirate skiff with what looks to be about 5 or 6 armed pirates on board.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>From video released by Italian navy, it appears the pirates were chased away when the Italian navy fired warning shots towards the vessel (skip to 25-second mark in the video below). A navy team then boarded the Torm Alexandra to confirm no pirates were on board as the crew hid in the ship\u2019s citadel. No injuries to the crew were reported.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"76dedd4fd743e8fd20d8d5c2-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Shockingly, the incident was just one of three reported in the area in the last few days. The International Maritime Bureau\u2019s Piracy Reporting Centre reported this attack and two others in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-ccs.org\/index.php\/piracy-reporting-centre\/live-piracy-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Live Piracy Report<\/a>. Thankfully no seafarers were kidnapped in these cases:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Over the last several years, the Gulf of Guinea and particularly the waters off Nigeria have emerged as a hotspot for crew kidnappings.\u00a0According to the IMB\u2019s latest piracy report, the\u00a0number of seafarers kidnapped by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea this year <a href=\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/imb-piracy-report-crew-kidnappings-surge-in-gulf-of-guinea\/\">has surged as pirates abduct bigger groups of seafarers further offshore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incident took place November 7 when pirates in a speed boat chased the tanker Torm Alexandra.\u00a0A helicopter crew from the nearby Italian Navy frigate Martinengo was launched and upon arriving on scene found a pirate skiff with what looks to be about 5 or 6 armed pirates on board. From video released by Italian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1164,5773,1497,753,1089,2853,11612,897],"class_list":["post-21307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-attack","tag-guinea","tag-gulf","tag-italian","tag-navy","tag-pirate","tag-protects","tag-tanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/21308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}