Dear List, I live in Turkey and have seen notices published by Nato as to what you are to do if you want to sail in the waters south of the Red Sea, east of Africa toward India.
NATO asks that you pre-plan your route, give that route to your embassy / consulate person for further transmission to Nato, be prepared to get a brief of what you should and should not do (written I think) and when you enter this AOA (area of operation) you touch base with NATO to let them know you arrived, you follow your prepared route as much as possible, listed to the twice daily SSB broadcasts, and otherwise, NOT communicate or use radar, or any other EMF signals. NATO also suggests that you run darken ship, keep the noise down, not fly your flag, keep an adequate lookout, and try to run at your fastest speed. NATO also asks that you wait for others going your way so you can convoy, avoid single ship sailing if at all possible, and not sail in this region during NON peak seasons. And, while many of us cannot keep up with commercial traffic, if you can find commercial traffic you can keep up with, become his buddy. From what I can tell from the news, and from various BBC and other newscasts, this couple did not or could not follow most of these suggestions. The rest you know. I recently had the opportunity to talk with an owner of a large boat that had hired a captain and crew to deliver the boat from the Med to Singapore The Captain after receiving a briefing about the region declined to take the job. The insurance company made a next-to-impossible-to-meet addition to his policy, and in the end, as I understand,he had the Captain take the boat to the mouth of the Red Sea and got the boat hoisted on to a freighter to Bombay. I also know of a motor-sailer that could not get any insurance to cover a similar trip, and also ended up putting the boat on a freighter. Lee Turkey _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
