Traveling in Pirate Waters to get to Dubai

For the next three days, we will be at sea (March 18-20).  We are now 1000 nautical miles from Dubai.  This whole trip will be 7000 nautical miles from Singapore to Rome.

Going into the Gulf of Arabia, we are entering pirate waters.  On the 19th we had a pirate drill. We had to stay in our cabins for a time then muster to our station. The security officer gave a presentation on pirates and the pirate raids are considered a business not an act of war.  This means they leave cruise ships alone because we are loaded with people; they usually attack oil tankers and cargo ships which have minimum crew and lots of things for them to sell.

This picture is the water canons set up on deck 7.

After Dubai, we travel down the coast to Oman and then into the entrance of the Red Sea where we are traveling near the coast of Somalia.  Most of the pirate attacks happen in this area because it ultimately goes into the Suez Canal.

At sea, we played games, watched food carving demonstrations, walked the decks, attended the shows and of course ate and ate and ate.

 This is what old people do while waiting for the show to begin.

You never tire of the beautiful sunsets and sunrises.