The oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was passing through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when pirates attacked and set her ablaze. That was just the beginning
In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and. When David Mockett, a maritime surveyor, inspected the vessel, he was left with more questions than answers.
Not long after, Mockett was killed in a car bombing. Bloomberg reporters Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, in their 2022 book, “Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy,” published by Portfolio, pull back the curtain on the byzantine and often corrupt world of international shipping. In this episode of Bloomberg’s, they tell the tale of one of the biggest insurance fraud cases in history—and the damage and death that came with it.
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