Hazard spot
Gulf of Guinea: Piracy
Gulf of Guinea: The area has been a focus of armed attacks at sea for years. There is no safe coastal leg for a yacht, so avoidance is the only answer.
- Cause
- Piracy
- Main season
- all year
- Position
- 03° 00,0' N 004° 00,0' E
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Gulf of Guinea: how the place works
The Gulf of Guinea has for years counted among the sea areas with the most attacks worldwide, and they are mostly directed at commercial shipping off the Nigerian coast. For yachts there is no usual route here and no infrastructure.
Gulf of Guinea: what breaks there
This is about attack and kidnapping, not material damage. Meteorologically the area is unremarkable, which does not make it better: this danger is not one you see on the barometer.
Gulf of Guinea: what this means for your policy
Piracy is excluded, and cover is not available in the yacht market. Anyone heading from Europe to South Africa goes via the Canaries, Cape Verde and Brazil, not along this coast.
Read this in full: This is where almost all cover endsCruising range
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And what applies right now?
This page shows what always holds here; live official warnings are on the warning map.
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