The United States, for example, has proposed that NATO ships patrol the eastern Mediterranean Sea and that NATO send Awacs warning and command planes to Turkey.
Mr Watson is the founder of Sea Shepherd, the conservation group based in Malibu, California, whose two ships patrol the seas challenging illegal fishing and whaling.
For six years from 2002, it tried to persuade Timor-Leste to join its Pacific Patrol Boat Programme, in which Australian ships patrol the seas of South Pacific countries on their behalf.
She was later employed as a barracks ship for patrol ships in 1918.
According to U.N. officials, part of the reason for the jump in deaths is that Italian coast guard ships and patrol ships operating under a European Union mission are not able to reach boats as fast as the Italian navy ships that patrolled the waters until their mission was scrapped last year.
Often the smugglers just hand the boat over to the migrants, to avoid arrest by Italian ships patrolling the Mediterranean.
Higher walls, tougher visa restrictions and ships patrolling borders in increasing numbers will only postpone the day of reckoning.
The Turks expected an attack from British ships patrolling the waters of the Gulf of Aqaba to the west.
He met Dave Mahoney, a tenor who also played the saxophone, and they began singing to while away the hours as their ship patrolled the Newfoundland area.
Hopes are fading for 46 South Korean sailors missing after an explosion sank their navy ship patrolling the disputed sea border with the north.
In March, South Korea says, a North Korean submarine slipped into the disputed waters and launched a torpedo at the South Korean ship patrolling there — a claim vehemently denied by the North.
