(DATE: 2015-01-30)Two recent onshore incidents in St Martin (French) have called attention to what seems to be an increasing rate of incident reports . Both incidents happened to Cruisers while onshore at shore side restaurants. Both were grab and run type of incidents. While CSSN does not record onshore incidents in our database, we do record the crimes against yachts; and in 2014 St Martin was the third hottest HOTspot in the Caribbean, according to our reports. We have noticed that sometimes when crime onshore involving cruisers increases, the probability of that crime spilling over to yachts seems to increase. This special report will hopefully support each captain’s risk assessment when considering a visit to St Martin.
As can be seen from the overall HOTspot map for 2014 St Martin is one of the top three HOTspots for 2014. Here is what CSSN Users see for 2014 when they look at the CSSN hotspot map for the Caribbean Basin:
St Martin shows up as the third hottest HOTspot for 2014.
St Martin is highlighted below:
Below is the graph that shows all St Martin 2014 incident reports, first for Dutch and French combined, then for each separately. All the reports were for non violent incident types.
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Anyone can see 2014 HOTspot data by going to http://www.