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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Circulars - Maritime Safety Committee - MSC.1/Circular.1334 – Piracy
and Armed Robbery Against Ships – (23 June 2009)Guidance to shipowners and ship operators, shipmasters and crews on preventing
and suppressing acts of piracy and armed robbery against ships - Annex – Guidance to Shipowners, Companies1, Ship Operators,
Shipmasters and Crews on Preventing and Suppressing Acts of Piracy1 and Armed Robbery1 Against Ships - Appendix 7 - Decalogue
of Safety - 8 In case of an assault
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8 In case of an assault
- I - do not hesitate to sound the ship’s general alarm in case of a threat of
assault;
- II - try to keep adequate lighting to permanently dazzle the opponents, in case of an
attempt by strangers to climb the ship’s side;
- III - raise the alarm, by VHF - channel 16, to the ships in the area and to the
permanent watch system of the authorities ashore (cite the existing structure in the
port). The efficiency of assistance by the security forces depends on an early
alarm;
- IV - sound the alarm with intermittent blasts on the siren and use visual alarms with
floodlights and signalling rockets;
- V - if appropriate, to protect the lives of those onboard, use measures to repel the
boarding by employing powerful floodlights for dazzling the aggressors or using jets of
water or signalling rockets against the areas of boarding; and
- VI - do not attempt any heroic acts.
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