The Simon de Danser Case: High Seas Boardings with Flag State Permission (1 Feb 22)

Tuesdays Second Chance offers to learning lessons from past incidents at sea. This edition examines the boarding of the M/Y Simon de Danser off the Atlantic Coast of Portugal in 1997.

What happened and why? What can we learn from this and similar cases? Participants were invited to question, discuss, comment and provide critique at every stage, with a view to identifying operational lessons learned that are relevant to today’s challenges in the Indian Ocean Region. South Asia audience