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Beware Yachts in Distress
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| September 13, 2008 9:22 AM
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It's all about economics - that's my take. Losing a ship for a couple of months, spending an extra million dollars to have it freed and having a Filipino crew member killed is still, on balance, more economically viable than sailing around Cape Point. But why you'd do it in a luxury yacht is beyond me...
| September 15, 2008 9:43 AM
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The website of the International Maritime Bureau has a map showing where all the attacks and attempted attacks occurred, and from that it appears that the yacht was raided very close to the shores of Puntland, rather than in the open seas like most of the others. So maybe the Frenchies were trying to cut down their risk. But if they were sailing from Australia, as I gather they were, why not just go around the Cape?
| September 15, 2008 10:42 AM
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Puntland is now the problem, surely?
What do you think?
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