221 F. Ibáñez G./ M. Á. Esteban Analysis of the Somali pirate attacks in the Indian Ocean. asynchronous conferencing goes beyond this period, up to 8% of the total number of attacks reported. In other cases, the same incident is reported from different locations, dozens of miles apart. Geographical coordinates are also provided that do not relate to the region or incidents are reported on land. We have counted up to 20 errors of this type. In the same respect, each one of the sources reports the incidents in its own way. For example, for one particular body the same attacks may have taken place in Somalia, while for another one it happened in the Indian Ocean. It may even be the case that the same body –for example the IMB, in its 2005 report- may describe several incidents occurring in the Gulf of Aden and as taking place in Somalia. However, in later reports, and in incidents spread over the same region, it considers that the attacks happened in the Gulf of Aden and not in Somalia. Thus, it seems necessary to establish some type of code that enables us to decipher what we understand when we are talking about an attack occurring in Somalia, in the Gulf of Aden or in the Indian Ocean. We have decided to use one specific geographical reference point to divide up the area of activity of the Somalia pirates: the maritime domain of each State, that is to say, the space that covers 200 miles from the coast and that includes: the territorial sea (12 miles from the base line) and the Exclusive Economic Zone (the next 188 miles). This is an area that includes the zone of influence of the State with respect to its natural resources. We have extracted the data regarding the maritime domain of each country from the database prepared by the Flanders Marine Institute. As we can see in image 1, the division of the area of activity of Somalia pirates, taking the maritime domains to be the base, leaves out an extensive central area of the Indian Ocean. We use the Indian Ocean denomination for this region.
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