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UK warship commander says Iran trying 'to test' Britain in Gulf.

Somali pirates weakened but not defeated: EU commander.

As part of the efforts exerted by INEGMA's "Counter-Piracy and Somalia Capacity-Building Program" (CPSCB) to spread awareness for the purpose of building expertise and providing recommendations with regards to maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia, the INEGMA team held discussions with Rear Admiral Antoine BEAUSSANT, Commander of the French Joint Force in the Indian Ocean , who deliberated on the latest developments, efforts, recommendations, as well as the upcoming agenda of ALINDIEN* and EUNAVFOR with regards to maritime piracy.

U.S. Navy to relieve commander after collisions in Asia: source.

Commander: Iranian Navy in Red Sea to Restore Security.

Pirate Commander Killed in Philippine Terror Crackdown.

A combination of factors including stepped up naval patrols closer to shore is leading to a drop in pirate attacks off the Somali coast, the former commander of NATO's counter-piracy mission said Monday (17 December).

The U.S. Northern Command and Coast Guard have launched a major field-training exercise off Alaska's northwest coast. Arctic Chinook is intended to

Just a few weeks after the Operation Commander of the EU Naval Force, Rear Admiral Bob TARRANT, issued another warning about the on-going piracy threat, there have been two more piracy related incidents off the Somali coast.

The Military Sealift Command Impeccable-class ocean surveillance ship USNS Impeccable (T-AGOS 23) rescued 11 fishermen while in route to Subic Bay, Philippines July 19.

The Eastern Naval Command, ENC, of the Nigerian Navy in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, on Friday, took delivery of a new warship christened the NN

The quick-thinking crew of a cargo ship thwarted a possible a hijacking or robbery at sea Saturday off Davao del Sur province by locking themselves in their quarters, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said. About eight men on two motorized outriggers boarded the MV Cecilia, but the crew quickly locked all the vessel's hatches and windows, said Commodore Joselito dela Cruz, PCG district commander on the main southern island of Mindanao. He said the suspected pirates left empty-handed before a Coast Guard vessel arrived at the site, near Balut Island.

The recurrence of lethal ship-whale collisions ('ship strikes') has prompted management entities across the globe to seek effective ways for reducing collision risk. Here we describe 'active whale avoidance' defined as a mariner making operational decisions to reduce the chance of a collision with a sighted whale. We generated a conceptual model of active whale avoidance and, as a proof of concept, apply data to the model based on observations of humpback whales surfacing in the proximity of large cruise ships, and simulations run in a full-mission bridge simulator and commonly used pilotage software. Application of the model demonstrated that (1) the opportunities for detecting a surfacing whale are often limited and temporary, (2) the cumulative probability of detecting one of the available 'cues' of whale's presence (and direction of travel) decreases with increased ship-to-whale distances, and (3) following detection time delays occur related to avoidance operations. These delays were attributed to the mariner evaluating competing risks (e.g., risk of whale collision vs. risk to human life, the ship, or other aspects of the marine environment), deciding upon an appropriate avoidance action, and achieving a new operational state by the ship once a maneuver is commanded. We thus identify several options for enhancing whale avoidance including training Lookouts to focus search efforts on a 'Cone of Concern,' defined here as the area forward of the ship where whales are at risk of collision based on the whale and ship's transit/swimming speed and direction of travel. Standardizing protocols for rapid communication of relevant sighting information among bridge team members can also increase avoidance by sharing information on the whale that is of sufficient quality to be actionable. We also found that, for marine pilots in Alaska, a slight change in course tends to be preferable to slowing the ship in response to a single sighted whale, owing, in part, to the substan