Piracy in the Indian forces to reconfigure two stages of testing

Piracy in the Indian

Sports Writing, Aug 18 (EFE) .- The increase in acts of piracy in the Indian Ocean this morning has forced the organization of the Volvo Ocean Race-scale world tour, which will depart from Alicante on 5 November has decided to reconfigure the route of the second and third stage of the test.

The original route took the teams to navigate through the east coast of Africa in the second stage, between Cape Town (South Africa) and Abu Dhabi (UAE), and do it again in the third, between Abu Dhabi and Sanya ( China).

Advised by the company of Dryad Maritime Intelligence maritime safety and the International Sailing Federation (International Sailing Federation ISAF), the race organizers have decided to keep that road crews could put in front of too high a risk.

Under this decision, the boats will depart from Cape Town on December 11 to a safe harbor on the coast of the Indian Ocean, possibly Goa or Kochi, India, to be transported from there to a place near Abu Dhabi, possibly the port Muscat, capital of Oman, at the entrance of the Persian Gulf where it will restart the stage to the finish of Abu Dhabi, where the January 13, 2012 will host the coastal race. The process will be reversed in the third stage before they put toward Sanya (China), one fourth of the ten scales that will host the regatta.

Job Bramley, director of communication of the VOR has explained that he has made the decision now because the situation in Indian is "dynamic." Until resolved the southwest monsoon and establishing the Northwest in late October and early November will not be known, he said, piracy will evolve this season.

The boats will be transported in a special merchant and crews will do separately by air. The organization has not advanced the names of the ports of call for "the interest of safety and details about its exact location will be provided later," he assured Bramley.

About the safety of merchant ships carry explained: "Piracy is still a crime opportunities. Regatta boats are (relatively) slow and too low freeboard, with few opportunities to apply countermeasures defensive tactics, and therefore are considered an easy target. freighters that have a higher speed maintained a higher freeboard and defensive measures are a more difficult target. The Pirates are still opting for options with less resistance."