VIDEO: Industry Campaign Hits the Big Screen in Battle Against Somali Piracy
SOS SaveOurSeafarers, a high profile, shipping industry anti- piracy campaign
is taking its message to celluloid with the launch of a short video
highlighting the human and economic cost of Somali piracy.The six-minute video
was launched this week at the Safety4Seainternational maritime security
conference in Athens and highlights the significant threat of Somali piracy
attacks for the worldwide seafarer community and potentially for world trade
itself.The video, which is also being posted on YouTube, uses a mixture of
hard-hitting real life interviews, and the latest technology to create a
"Hollywood style" action sequence where a ship is captured and hostages taken.
This is followed by some hard-hitting thoughts from a former hostage, from the
EUNAVFOR Chief of Staff, and from a member of the SOS Steering Group.Commenting
on the launch of the video, Bill Box from SaveOurSeafarers, said: "Whilst
recent incidents such as the high-profile kidnappings of Judith Tebutt and
Marie Dedieu have put the issue in the headlines, these two incidents barely
scrape the surface of this ongoing crisis."Seafarers have been constantly under
threat from Somali pirates for the last five years, with at times more than 800
innocent seafarers being held hostage for months on end in appalling conditions
and facing mental and physical torture at the hands of their captors. Piracy
costs the global economy as much as £12billion a year and continues to threaten
key transport routes through the Indian Ocean.""The aim of our video is to take
the campaign message to a wider audience and to gain support outside as well as
inside the maritime industry, calling for more determined government action
against Somali piracy."The campaign, launched in March this year, is made up of
the largest ever grouping of international seafarers' organisations, shipping
companies and shipping industry associations. It has already received backing
from the British, Philippine and Georgian governments and has seen support from
180 countries.
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