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Modern Day Piracy Stalks the Seas |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Kim Kosko |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 1,481 Words, 9,133 Characters |
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In the wake of the alarming increase in crime on the seas, the nation's first comprehensive conference on the subject was held last September in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Billed as "Security of the Seas" (S.O.S.) and sponsored by the New Jersey Marine Science consortium, the New Jersey Sea Grant Extension Service, and the Center for Maritime Criminology at Rutgers University, the timing of the conference took on dramatic overtones. The concluding topic of the three-day conference was "Terrorism, Sabotage, and espionage." The following week, the world witnessed one of the decade's most daring acts of piracy: the midocean hijacking of the Italian cruise liner, the Achille Lauro.
In organizing the initial conference, the sponsors created a diversified schedule of topic discussions on ocean-related crimes. Modern day piracy was put into sharp perspective for participants who ranged from law...
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...rowing tend in defrauding incidents. Violations of new laws continue to threaten the marine and coastal environment. At least one ship a week disappears without a trace and is reported stolen or sunk, and acts of terrorism against ships occur once a day somewhere in the world. Like an octopus, modern day maritime crime is fast extending its fear-some tentacles throughout today's waters. vbcrlf
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