{"id":6367,"date":"2011-12-23T00:40:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T22:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/sailing-ocean-race-enters-anti-piracy-stealth-zone\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T00:40:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T22:40:50","slug":"sailing-ocean-race-enters-anti-piracy-stealth-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sailing-ocean-race-enters-anti-piracy-stealth-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing-Ocean race enters anti-piracy stealth zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN<\/span> Dec 22 (Reuters) &#8211; French team<br \/>\nGroupama vanished off the public radar on Thursday as they led<br \/>\nthe Volvo Ocean Race fleet into an anti-piracy stealth<br \/>\nzone.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The fleet will be hidden in the zone, which is one of<br \/>\nseveral security measures introduced to protect competitors from<br \/>\npirates operating off the coast of Somalia.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The main pack, including U.S.-based Puma in second place,<br \/>\nSpain&#8217;s Telefonica in third and New Zealand\/Spanish entry Camper<br \/>\nin fourth, were due to reach the zone by Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The exact location of the boats will continue to be masked,<br \/>\nbut their positions relative to each other will be updated until<br \/>\nthey reach a secret Indian Ocean &#8216;safe haven&#8217; port in around a<br \/>\nweek&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An armed ship will then be used to transport the yachts<br \/>\nthrough the area where pirates are most active and on to<br \/>\nSharjah, where teams will resume racing and finish at Abu Dhabi<br \/>\nin the New Year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The race, in which the teams cover more then 39,000 nautical<br \/>\nmiles (72,000 kms), finishes in Galway in July.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Editing by John Mehaffey; To query or comment on this story<br \/>\nemail sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please double click on the news line below:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>for all sports stories<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN Dec 22 (Reuters) &#8211; French team Groupama vanished off the public radar on Thursday as they led the Volvo Ocean Race fleet into an anti-piracy stealth zone. The fleet will be hidden in the zone, which is one of several security measures introduced to protect competitors from pirates operating off the coast of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}