In the Indian Ocean the pirates do not renounce to attack the ships not even in conditions unfavorable weather-navy



The escalation of the actions of piracy in the Indian Ocean is exceeding also the limits sets up from the adverse conditions weather-navy and by now it attacks to it happen also in the period in which the monsoon previously it induced the pirates to renounce to the assaults.

The recent ones attack - PRC) of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB has confirmed the Piracy Reporting Centre () - have demonstrated that, contrarily to how much happened previously, the threat of piracy in the Indian Ocean during the season of the monsoons lasts and therefore the commanders of the ships are invited to maintain a state of extreme vigilance to the aim to implement measures of self-protection in conformity with the version 3 of the Best practice Managements and to signal all the incidents, are they attack real or assault attempts.

Previously remarkable seasonal variations in the geographic areas in which happened attacks they to the ships by the pirates somalis, in the presence of the winter monsoons or of the summery monsoons were obvious, that they begin towards the May end and last until the end of August and to the first days of september. If the intensity of the monsoons varied from year to year, from season to season and also from day to day - it has found the PRC - however the monsoons has an important role in influencing the areas of action and the periods of activity of the pirates.

Last year - it has explained the PRC - episodes of piracy in the Indian Ocean in the months of june, July have not happened and August. The pirates, hindered from the adverse conditions of the sea and from strong the wind, of norm look for other areas of hunting. An increase of the activity of the pirates is found in the Gulf of Aden and the southern part of the Red Sea, where the atmospheric conditions are not so severe.

In the 2011 it has been assisted to analogous an intense activity of piracy in the Red Sea, with 15 incidents from the beginning of the year of which 11 they have taken place from on 20 May. This recent increase - it has emphasized the PRC - is worry reason. Moreover in the course of the weekend on 10-12 June the Piracy Reporting Centre has received signallings of three ships object of attacks of the pirates in the Indian Ocean to about 450 miles to east of Socotrums. Two incidents have happened in the same day, almost in the same position and within two hours from one another, suggesting the possible involvement of the same group of action of pirates. They are taken aim a bulkcarrier before, then a chimichiera ship, while the next day almost in the same position is attacked a ship portarinfuse Panamax. The relations of two of the commanders of the ships specify that in the course of the two days in which has happened it attacks they the conditions of the sea were very bad with a wind of 7 intensities Beaufort, conditions that of norm are not favorable for assaults launch from pirates on board of boats of small dimensions.