On passage from Grenada to Trinidad: Two yachts boarded and robbed – December 2015
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On December 20th at approximately noon, a 24 meter (80 ft) sailing yacht was sailing from Chaguaramas Trinidad N. to Port Louis Grenada. At about the halfway point, in the vicinity of the Hibiscus Gas platform 30 miles N of Trinidad, the yacht was boarded and robbed. On December 27th a 2nd yacht, this time a 32ft sloop, in a similar position suffered the same fate. Reports below from CSSN.
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A similar incident occured in July 2016, 2-5 miles east of the Hibiscus platform. See CSSN (www.safetyandsecuritynet.com) for more details.