Physical barriers to protect certain parts of the ship. Source: Private archive. Attack with a pirate ship accompanied by a warship helicopter โ explanation of individual network segments [3]. Chart 1. Table 2. Table 3. Ship Strategy [3]. Table 4. Table 5. Pirate Strategy [3]. Table 6. Rules for computing duals. Table 8. Table 9. Matrix E Game Theory [3]. Table In the age of globalization, piracy is not a trivial phenomenon - it is a global organized crime which currently poses the largest human threat at seas and oceans.
In this article, models of preventive and timely effective operations of the ship against possible pirate attacks have been systematically analyzed, as well as the actions of the defence ship against pirate attacks during the sailing in piracy areas and beyond. Based on the results, after carrying out the research, the model of prevention of possible pirate attacks against the ship was made, with developed Risk Assessment model, Game Theory model, and proposed improvements to protect the ship against pirate attacks by means of simulations of different attacks scenarios made by the use of Petri nets.
In recent studies in both domestic and foreign scientific and professional literature, the authors mainly deal with the study of a particular segment of pirate attacks on ships and how to determine to avoid such attacks. Recently, research has been exploring the possibility of defence of the ship against pirate attacks, including a large number of significant influencing factors.
The articles important for the research in this paper are as follows: Thomas Lucas and Thomas Tsilis in their article Counter-piracy Escort Operations in the Gulf of Aden. There was a scenario made in which a group of merchant ships were sailing with the guidance of a warship escort. More than , simulations of Escort Missions were created. The results achieved show how to form the convoy, the number of ships in the convoy, the transit speed and the positioning of the warship in relation to the ships in the convoy, and the detection of potential pirates.
The literature that has been analyzed mostly consists of papers that give only partial approach to the problem of protecting ships against pirate attacks. The latest statistical data show that the total average number of pirate attacks in the world is in decline, and this average decline is contributed by the decline of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden.
