Cruise Passengers Advised to Stay Alert because the Ship Handed Via a Spot ‘Recognized for Piracy Threats’

Cunard’s Queen Anne cruise ship suggested passengers to stay cautious whereas the ship handed by means of a piracy-prone space in Southeast Asia, in line with a Thursday, March 13, TikTok.

Within the TikTok video from person cruisegypsyuk@lillydapink, passengers are informed through the loudspeaker announcement that the realm they had been passing by means of, the Sulu-Celebes Sea, from Darwin, Australia, to Manila within the Philippines, is “recognized for piracy threats.” 

Because of this, the cruise could be “working at a heightened degree of safety alertness throughout this era,” which included the exterior promenade deck being closed in a single day and “deck lights shall be on to cut back the ship’s exterior lighting.” 

The announcement additionally requested that passengers “flip off your stateroom lights when not wanted, and shut the curtains of your stateroom window or balcony.”

“As a part of commonplace maritime procedures, our Captains could make precautionary bulletins when crusing by means of sure areas,” the consultant for Cunard cruise line informed Enterprise Insider. “There was no particular risk to the ship or its friends, and our onboard expertise remained uninterrupted.”

The announcement then continued by delivering directions within the occasion of a piracy-related emergency, emphasizing that the passengers and crew’s security is the ship’s highest precedence. “I guarantee you that measures to stop any unlikely incident have been properly deliberate and the probability of this taking place on a giant ship like Queen Anne is completely minimal.”

A number of different TikTok customers commented that they’d be scared within the situation. “Effectively that sounds terrifying 😂,” one person wrote. However the authentic poster replied, “Probably not it is simply security precautions the chance may be very low 🥰👍.”

The TikTok person shared extra movies documenting the ship’s security precautions as they navigated the Sulu-Celebes Sea, together with movies of the darkish rooms with the curtains drawn. 

“So all of the blinds had been shut, and the lights had been all the way down to the minimal final evening. The safety did a tremendous job holding watch over the ship final evening. Effectively completed guys,” the person wrote in a separate TikTok.

The waters between Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines had been as soon as notorious for kidnapping-for-ransom incidents. Notably, the jihadist militant and pirate group, the Abu Sayyaf Group, was recognized for the incidents, per MarineInsight.

Between late 2016 and mid-2022, ships had been suggested to keep away from the waters as a result of abduction threats had been excessive. There have been no abductions since January 2020, and in consequence, the risk degree moved all the way down to “low” in January 2025, per MarineInsight.

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The TikToker is on a 111-night round-trip Maiden World Voyage, per Cruise Mapper. The cruise started in Hamburg, Germany, on Jan. 7 and has made stops in England, New York, Hawaii, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, China and extra. 

The ship will return to Hamburg on April 29, after stopping in Vietnam, South Africa, Singapore, and Malaysia.

The Queen Anne accommodates 2,996 friends, 1,225 crew members and is 1,058 ft lengthy.