Cruise safety

Terrorists, pirates and drug traffickers threaten a booming sector

The oil tanker Marqués de la Ensenada, of the Spanish navy, escorting the cruiser Melody. Photo - Ministry of Defense
The oil tanker Marqués de la Ensenada, of the Spanish navy, escorting the cruiser Melody. Photo - Ministry of Defense

Cruise ship security is a complex issue that goes beyond the hiring of security guards or the correct design of ships. Cruise ships have always been a tempting target for terrorists, pirates and other actors related to organized crime. The great master of espionage novels, Frederick Forsyth, already published in 2008 The Afghan, a novel in which he proposed the kidnapping by a terrorist group of a gas ship to launch it against the cruise ship Queen Mary 2, on which the leaders of the G8 and, as we will see, fiction is not too far from reality.

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