09/03/2026
This summer, vessels moored off the Côte d'Azur, the Balearics, and the Amalfi Coast face a familiar but underestimated risk: opportunistic and organized theft targeting unattended tenders, deck equipment, and vessels running minimal watch coverage during peak anchorage congestion.
Most incidents aren't dramatic. They're quiet. A tender goes missing overnight. An access point is left unmonitored while the family is ashore. A crew change creates a gap in coverage nobody flagged until the debrief.
The equipment is replaceable. The people on board are the reason the watch exists in the first place. Frankentek builds vessel security systems around how watch teams actually protect a family, not generic marine alarms bolted on after the fact.
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