Maritime Blog
A huge lot of paper has being wasted during last 10-15 years to show what a progress in improving and developing safety standards has been made. Regretfully, but many of improvements and developments have never gone any further than papers accurately filed and stored as multitude of checklists, instructions and manuals. And as far ago as from 2004 to one existing 'paper epidemy' of ISM, the second one – of ISPS or security, has been successfully added. Since then we are supposed to be able to fight pirates, search bombs and weapons and be skilful in wild crowd management…
There is, however, almost nothing which one can consider as positive results of Big Security Fight with unseen and unheard of enemy, apart from nonsense with seals, locks, drills and sharp increase in time-consuming documentation procedures - ridiculous stuff, which proved its zero usefulness in case of real pirate attacks first in GOA and now all over the Indian Ocean.
Fortunately some or many contrite shipowners started to put armed guards on board for crew protection.
Unfortunately with political unrest in Somalia and now in Yemen, there are almost no chances for piracy to disappear in the nearest future.
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