This book offers an alarming inside look at the security
preparations of the cruise industry and the potential for cruise
ships to be the target for pirates, terrorists, and criminal
activity. Cruising for Trouble exposes the acute vulnerability of
cruise ships to piracy, terrorism, and crime, both on the high seas
and in domestic and foreign ports-of-call. While cruise ships have
ramped up in size and passenger capacity to become floating
skyscrapers housing as many as 7,000 passengers, and while piracy
incidents have increased since 2008 as the world economy has
deteriorated, there has been no corresponding increase or
enhancement in onboard security personnel, external tactical units,
preventive screening, or coordinated response planning to guard
against the growing threat of acts of piracy and internal and
external terrorist attacks. Commander Gaouette reveals to cruise
passengers the very real security dangers they unwittingly face
when they saunter up the gangway of a cruise ship for a carefree
holiday. He sounds a clarion call to national and transnational
security agencies, maritime regulators, legislators, and customers
to compel the cruise industry to strengthen and reform its security
programs before catastrophe strikes. The author, a longtime cruise
industry insider who now serves as a top maritime security official
in the Department of Homeland Security, details the many security
defects and vulnerabilities of cruise ships, identifies the
remedies, and makes the case for their urgent implementation.
Extensively documented and illustrated, Cruising for Trouble is a
vividly told cautionary for the ten million Americans who taken
cruise-ship vacations each year and the millions more who would
like to. As well as modeling the potential threats to cruise ships
from pirates and maritime terrorists-who mimic each other's
methods, overlap each other's territories, and might well find it
mutually beneficial to combine their forces and resources-Commander
Gaoutte recounts many actual examples of cruise-ship insecurity
that have been swept under the carpet or spun by the cruise
industry: pirate attacks, fires, onboard crime, mass food
poisonings and infections, and the mysterious disappearances of
cruise-ship passengers. A combination of photographs from the
author, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Coast Guard, and API
illustrate innovative security measures found on cruise ships,
results of terrorist attacks, fire, piracy, and victims of cruise
ship incidents. Provides a list of acronyms found throughout the
book, such as the International Ship and Port Security (ISPS) codes
and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Includes over 500 endnote
references Offers a comprehensive index
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