The Motor Vessel (MV) Atlantic Princess was said to have been abducted 70 nautical miles south of Tema in the early hours of last Thursday, May 20, 2021. It is common knowledge by seafarers that pirates operate under the guise of a mother ship, which carries smaller high speeding crafts that are deployed to attack targets by surprise. However, the MV Atlantic Princess crew failed to post the lookout for personnel when they were heading to sea. Reports say the armed gang got access to the vessel, sorted the expatriate crew from the Ghanaian counterparts, took the former in their skiffs and at top speed, chartered course eastwards on the open sea. Meanwhile, the armed gangsters disconnected all the communication systems onboard the orphaned vessel.
