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A Royal Caribbean crew member has died after going overboard the cruise ship, Rhapsody of the Seas. The crew member, identified as 35 year old Indian citizen, Mansley Pereira was reported overboard whilst the Rhapsody of the Seas was docked in the Croatian cruise port of Dubrovnik, Croatia. A spokesman for the Ministry of Maritime … More Crew Member Dies In Croatia, After Going Overboard
According to a report over the weekend in Nigeria’s leading daily newspaper This Day, the Chief of the Nigerian Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas, has revealed that Nigeria and other countries in the Gulf of Guinea are currently losing a sum of $2 billion to pirate attacks annually. Speaking at the Annual General … More Gulf of Guinea Countries Losing $2Billion Annually to Pirates
The Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) have issued a warning for mariners operating in the region of Sabah, Malaysia to exercise extreme caution after 3 crew members were abducted by masked and heavily armed men. On 23rd September, at about 1200 hours (local time) seven masked-men … More Armed Piracy Attack off Coast of Malaysia
MOBtronic is a man-overboard alert system which provides automatic detection of man overboard incidents, triggering an immediate alarm on the bridge of the vessel.
MOBtronic can pinpoint both the onboard location from which a person fell, for example the deck level or cabin, and the exact GPS and chart location of the fall, aiding identification and recovery.
