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April 06, 2011 12:18 PM Map Of Ocean Currents Helps S Korean Warship's Anti-Piracy Patrol SEOUL, April 6 (Bernama) -- South Korea's state-run ocean research centre built an observation system that provides a customised map of ocean currents in waters off Somalia to help a Korean warship patrol piracy-infested shipping routes, Yonhap News Agency reported officials as saying Wednesday. The daily map of surface ocean currents in the Arabian Sea would be essential in helping the South Korean warship track a Somali pirate boat because the information allows the warship to sail faster by taking advantage of favorable ocean currents, the Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration (KHOA) said in a statement. The KHOA said it built the system with its own computer-based calculation methods based on data from a French satellite. The map of ocean currents is delivered to the 4,500-tonne destroyer in the Gulf of Aden on a daily basis, according to the statement. South Korea has deployed the warship and some 300 troops to waters off Somalia since 2009 under a global effort to tackle piracy there. The Cheonghae unit is tasked with protecting South Korean vessels off the Somali coast and providing support to ships of other nations in nearby waters. About 500 South Korean vessels travel through the Gulf of Aden each year, one of the world's most important shipping routes. -- BERNAMA <http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=576749> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
