Piracy Solutions

I believe a picture is worth a thousand words - here's two thousand for you today.



Straying a bit from my main theme of yacht security, these are examples of what happens to threats to commercial shipping.

Thank you to all the Naval Forces in the Gulf of Aden/Indian Ocean, for your efforts.

Light-minded Safety

I came across this article from Yachting magazine, Oct 2007. I found it illuminating (sorry, couldn't resist the pun).



The goal is the protection of your vessel and people on-board - if you can identify the threat further out, it can serve as a deterrence or an indicator to prepare for defense of your vessel - falling in-line with the 4 'D's we stress (Detection - Deterrence - Delaying - Defense). Any questions, drop me a line at yachtsecurity@privacyharbor.com - I'll be happy to reply.

Hotel Security

Hotel Security - a post on FerFal's blog by Rick Davis. Lots of common sense advice.

An additional item that I consider good to have for hotel rooms is a fairly cheap motion sensor, battery operated, that provides either LED or LED with a loud doorbell type chime - I picked one up for less than $20. It provides just a little bit of warning and distraction to an unwelcome guest, and will wake you to deal with the problem.



Stay safe.

Sailing Away from Pirates

From Yachtpals, a short piece about how the piracy situation is forcing cruisers and racers to re-think their plans.



Here's what should be happening (thanks to the guys at EagleSpeak)....

Kannad Marine Launches Personal AIS-Based EPIRB

From the GCaptain blog - an interesting piece of kit that hopefully will be making its way onto the US market soon. Panbo has also done a review.

Self Analysis by Chirontraining

Here's a great piece, summing up a few thoughts I have nicely:
Self Analysis
A quote - 'So what are the stupid life choices? Almost all social violence happens in four kinds of places:...'

Just started (on another long flight) a book by Mark Hatmaker - No Second Chance. He also stresses awareness and attitude as keys in avoiding the use of violence in your defense. I will review it later (probably next month).

Until then, train hard and train smart.

The Survival Laboratory

Don Rearic has a long history of posting great articles on the net, here's a link (and an excerpt below) from The Survival Blog

Versatile Tools for Survival
You can spread peanut butter with it. You can slice the sandwich in half with it on the diagonal when you are done...with it. You can open a box with it. You can cut the tape when you are sealing up a box...with it.

We are being dumbed down. We are being turned into a more primitive people because of childish fear and hateful bigotry and stupidity.

The Knife.

And they have some great links along the right hand side. I feel honored to be in the company of these people, many I consider mentors.

Speaking of knives, here's one that looks interesting (a late Christmas present?)...

Photo courtesy of Death Valley Mag.