Several weeks after Horn and the Bratvaag had been to White Island, the Isbjorn, a ship hired by reporters, stopped there, and one of the reporters, Knut Stubbendorff, found a waterlogged notebook, which he dried in his cabin.
A few years back a group of 12 American tourists from a Carnival ship hired a van driver to explore Limon, Costa Rica.
The issue boiled over a few days before Christmas, when the Venezuelan Navy said it came across a survey ship hired by Exxon in an area under "undoubtedly Venezuelan sovereignty".
This is the bridge of the Bourbon Argos, one of three merchant ships hired by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to rescue stricken refugees from the waters north of Libya, in the absence of full-scale EU rescue operations.
Most cruise ships hire people from their country of origin.
Guybrush takes it upon himself to rescue her, buying a ship and hiring Carla, Otis, and Meathook as crew before setting sail for the fabled island.
Piracy off Somalia's coast has subsided in the past three years, mainly due to shipping firms hiring private security details and the presence of international warships.
Meanwhile, while The Last Ship has hired a few Veteran writers in the past, there's no need to for consistent participation because the Defense Department, at taxpayer expense, provides up to twelve active-duty personnel to the show to be story, tech, set and logistics liaisons.
To carry the American flag, the Norwegian Cruise ships must hire American crews, pay American wages and taxes, and follow American environmental regulations.
If governments, rather than commercial shipping companies, hired private security contractors for that purpose we might see real progress in fighting pirates.
