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Originally Posted by Xringer
When I was a kid, I never figured, in the 21st century, we would still be plagued by pirates.
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I wrote the software for a company that provides marine security and alerts for pirate/suspicious activity and tracks vessels through dangerous zones of the world. I just took a quick look and they have had 32 reports so far this year. You would be surprised how much activity there is in some parts of the world. Not many result in the vessel being taken but there are frequent occurrences of vessels being attacked while at sea or boarded whilst in port and supplies being stolen.
We provide autonomous satellite trackers that are magnetic and can be placed on a vessel without being obvious. The first thing that happens when a vessel is pirated is that the comms and AIS equipment is disabled making the vessel untrackable. Using our trackers which could be placed pretty much anywhere the vessel can still be tracked.
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