Hawaii is also under scanner after “The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center” has placed it under its Tsunami advisory list. The North American Coastal parts of California and Alaska coastal island area from Kodiak to Attu is also under threats according to the Warning Center.

The center already has stated that a Tsunami is already on its way that can destroy a lot of lives along the sea coast and can also cause major destruction all around the area. It is being predicted that the Tsunami can collide with Hawai’s EWA (EH-VAH) beach around 11:19 A.M. in the morning.

The center is looking forward to employ important measure to safeguard Lives and their properties as they have instructed people out there to move from that region and go to a safer zone for their and their family’s protection.

Chile’s Earthquake is the second of the weekend with Japan’s Okinawa region being hit by 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake also in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Pirates die after VLCC release

TWO PIRATES have been killed in a gunfight with a rival group after releasing the hijacked Greek VLCC Maran Centaurus, Fairplay was told today.

Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme told Fairplay that pirates released the ship after a record-breaking ransom of more than $7M was dropped onto the tanker yesterday by helicopter.

While returning to shore, the pirates were attacked by a rival group and two of them were killed, he said.The 300,294dwt tanker was taken on 29 November in the Somali Basin with 28 crew members aboard, EU NAVFOR reported. It was released this morning outside Haradere off Somalia and is now heading towards Durban.

Operator and manager Maran Tankers Management said all crew members are safe and well. The company would not confirm whether a ransom had been paid, “as they do not wish to provide any information which might in any way encourage further criminal acts of this kind”.

Meanwhile, the Turkish navy has helped Indian tanker Jag Layak evade an attack by pirates in the Gulf of Aden.

A helicopter from Turkish frigate TCG Gokova intercepted a pirate skiff that had opened fire on the 147,834dwt tanker on Saturday morning, EU NAVFOR said. No-one was hurt in the crew, and suspected pirates were arrested.

And the International Chamber of Shipping today released a statement calling on governments to do more to fight piracy.

“It is extraordinary that governments today seem less able to protect shipping than they were almost 200 years ago,” ICS Chairman Spyros Polemis remarked.

Maran Tankers Management Inc

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M/V “Arctic Sea” has been allowed to enter the Grand Harbour in Valletta after the Maltese Civil Protection Department declared it free of radiation and chemical hazards. The Maltese-registered ship had been the focus of speculation that it was carrying Russian S300 advanced air-defence missiles to Iran.

Despite repeated promises to take it into port, the Russian Navy has held M/V “Arctic Sea” in international waters since seizing it from suspected pirates on August 17 off Cape Verde near West Africa, 2,500 miles off course.

The ship had been under guard by two Russian warships since then. An attempt to dock at Las Palmas in Grand Canary failed last month after disputes over the presence of Russian military officers. Algeria also refused to allow M/V “Arctic Sea” to enter its waters.

The ship was allegedly boarded by an armed gang two days after it left Finland on July 22 to deliver timber worth USD 1.7 million to Algeria. The Russian Investigative Committee released M/V “Arctic Sea” from a detention order after prosecutors insisted that they had found no evidence of suspicious cargo.

Nobody has explained why a ship transporting a relatively inexpensive load should have been the target of the first documented act of piracy in Northern European waters for centuries.

Solchart, the Finnish owners of the ship, calculated that the incident had cost the company more than EUR 700,000 since the Russian Navy took control of the vessel.

A relief crew from Russia was in Malta to meet M/V “Arctic Sea”, which needs repairs. The captain and three crew members, who are all Russian, had been on board throughout the voyage. Their families complained in a letter to Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prime Minister, that they needed medical and psychological help.

It is unclear whether they will be free to return home to the Russian port of Archangel or be taken to Moscow for questioning.

Eleven other crewmen were held in Moscow for a week for interrogation by the Federal Security Service. They and the eight alleged pirates had been flown to Russia from Cape Verde.

The eight suspects, described as two Russian citizens, an Estonian, a Latvian and four stateless persons, are in custody in Moscow accused of piracy and kidnapping. They claimed to be ecologists who were rescued by the crew of M/V “Arctic Sea” when their inflatable dinghy got into trouble.

President Medvedev dispatched submarines and warships to find M/V “Arctic Sea” when it was declared missing. The Foreign Ministry later admitted that the ship’s movements had been tracked by Russian and Nato forces.

Suspicions about a cargo of smuggled missiles for Iran were strengthened when Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, made a secret visit to Moscow last month for talks with Mr. Medvedev and Mr. Putin. The Kremlin and Israel initially denied that any visit had taken place, but later admitted that Mr. Netanyahu had been in Russia.

Russian officials initially said that M/V “Arctic Sea” would be taken to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, but the ship remained at sea amid disagreements among the various governments involved and its owners.

“Ladny”, a Russian naval vessel that had been accompanying M/V “Arctic Sea”, returned to its port last night. “The Russian Navy’s mission has been completed,” a Russian Defence Ministry spokesman said.