Pirates board two offshore ships in Bay of Campeche - SAFETY4SEA - Safety4Sea

Armed pirates boarded 2 offshore vessels successful 2 days connected the 28th and 29th of December, connected Mexico’s Bay of Campeche, according to section media, leaving the unit unharmed but stealing invaluable equipment.

More specifically, connected the 29th, six equipped robbers boarded the AHTS / spill effect vessel Bourbon Alienor. They stole SCBAs, tools, radios and different cogwheel successful a tiny boat.

The onslaught was reported to the Mexican authorities, and the Mexican Navy (Semar) responded wrong respective hours to instrumentality a report.

On the 28th, pirates reportedly boarded the Bourbon Artabaze, but nary further details connected the boarding were available.

The Bay of Campeche has experienced galore similar incidents, arsenic successful August 2022, pirates robbed a manned semisub drilling rig successful the Bay of Campeche, disconnected the seashore of Paraiso.

Three weeks earlier, robbers called astatine 5 unmanned “satellite” offshore platforms successful Campeche’s Cantarell tract complex, looting the platforms for alloy pipe, comms equipment, tools, cables, and pumps, among different items.