Police in the Maldives said they were seeking help from the United States and Australia in the investigation into a blast on Monday on President Yameen Abdul Gayoom’s speedboat as he returned home after performing…
Source: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htseamo/articles/20150910.aspx September 10, 2015: Worldwide piracy has become a less expensive problem since 2013 and most of the activity has moved to the coasts of Malaysia and Indonesia and areas near the Malacca Strait. In…
Source: http://gcaptain.com/u-s-navy-ship-catches-fire-at-croatian-shipyard The U.S. 6th Fleet command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC20) is tugged in to the staging area to begin the dry dock process in the Viktor Lenac Shipyard in Rijeka,…
EU Naval Force Operation Commander warned a room full of shipping executives that while Somali piracy in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden is down, there is no room for complacency regarding the on-going…
WBIED.com Editorial Staff The following video clip shows what is an attempt to break a speed record. The footage was filmed last week as powerboat racer Stuart Hayim was attempting to set a speed record…
Extract from the SMALL VESSEL SECURITY STRATEGY document published by the Department of Homeland Security APRIL 2008 There are numerous examples overseas of the use of small vessels as a waterborne improvised explosive device (WBIED) to attack maritime…
The following article from Hull University Centre for Security Studies has been posted: All rights are reserved by the copyright holders: Link to Download Document Extract: The experience of coalition troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has…
The followings is a list of WBIED attacks: In August 2005, Turkish authorities arrested Louai Sakka, a senior al-Qaeda operative when a one-ton bomb he designed detonated prematurely. Sakka had intended to place the bomb…