Section 37: Offences against the safety of ships or fixed platforms.

(1) A person who—
(a) seizes or exercises control of a ship or a fixed platform by force, threat, or any other form of intimidation,
(b) commits an act of violence against a person on board a ship or a fixed platform, where that act is likely to endanger the safety of the ship or fixed platform,
(c) destroys a ship or causes damage to a ship or its cargo,
(d) places or causes to be placed on a ship, by any means whatsoever, a device or substance likely to destroy or cause damage to the ship or its cargo,
(e) destroys a fixed platform or causes damage to it, which is likely to endanger its safety, or places or causes to be placed on a fixed platform, by any means whatsoever, a device or substance likely to destroy that fixed platform or to endanger its safety,
(f) destroys or damages maritime navigational facilities or interferes with their operation, where that act is likely to endanger the safe navigation of a ship,
(g) communicates information, which that person knows to be false, thereby endangering the safe navigation of a ship, or
(h) injures any person in connection with the commission of any of the offences provided for in paragraphs (a)-(g) of this subsection,
commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to —
(i) imprisonment for a term of at least 25 years, or
(ii) a death penalty, where death results from the commission of the act.
(2) A person who threatens to commit any of the offences provided for in subsection (1) (b), (c), (e) and (f), with the aim of compelling the State or a person to do or refrain from doing any act, commits an offence, and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of at least 25 years.