Global Marine Systems Ltd (GMSL) were faced with a serious threat of a piracy attack as they transited the Gulf of Aden (GoA) conducting a cable-lay. Cable lay vessels have relatively low freeboards and often operate at slow speeds of 2 knots. Valuable cable and equipment; combined with the project location in the world’s most notoriously high-risk piracy area meant that GMSL’s vessel the Cable Innovator was extremely vulnerable to a piracy

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