Your headline “Attempted Piracy” is actually inaccurate and misleading. It’s more appropriately called “Suspicious Vessel” or “Suspicious Approach”. These reports are somewhat common nowadays as all ships in the area are quite vigilant and report every sighting.

A half a kilometre is hard to identify weapons and ladders so it could be anything, commonly fishermen looking to trade. In any case, the point is, escalating the headline creates unnecessary alarm and just “sensationalizes” what is actually happening.

There hasn’t been any successful piracy in this area for a few years now and very little “suspicious” sightings given the vast numbers of ships in the area. And even less actual attempts. So, please, let’s call it like it is.

Cheers,
Roger Hill
sv Equanimity