Comoros - Security

Visitors here in September 2015, SV Totem shared the following comments regarding security in Comoros:

• We felt very safe on shore here and had no qualms about walking through town after dark.
• It’s sensible to take measures to prevent opportunity theft, especially in very poor countries like Comoros. Lift the dinghy at night and hide or lock-up anything of value on deck (e.g. jerry cans, portable generator, dive tanks, etc.).
• Your agent can help you hire someone for a nominal fee to be on your boat if it will be unattended for a full day.
• There isn’t a place to land and leave your dinghy, but your agent can facilitate shore-bound ferrying by canoe.
• Gregarious kids will come to your boat in dugouts, kayaks, or just float out on rice sacks filled with empty plastic bottles. Our agent warned us however that some of these cherubs weren’t quite so sweet, and maybe spotters that would inform shoreside thieves of what might be had from our decks. Best, therefore, to keep them from coming on board.