He has a depth of experience in maritime security, especially anti-piracy. This has included ship security surveys, maritime intelligence, and route planning advice, vessel preparation and crew training; bridge advising. He has operated as a team leader for on-board unarmed / armed security teams for vessel protection in the Indian Ocean and Somali. He also operated as part of a hijacked vessel response and hostage release team.
He has also worked as part of an aviation security team providing operational support to humanitarian aviation operations in South Sudan.
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For vines and olive trees,
Marble well-governed cities
And ships upon untamed seas,
But there on the shining metal
His hands had put instead
An artificial wilderness
And a sky like lead.
From The Shield of Achilles W. H. Auden
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