Security Dynamics’ Super Yacht Speciality Team provides ‘best of kind’ expert security services to the luxury and mega yacht community.  Our founders created SeaSecure - the largest best known maritime security company in the world - and are the leading security experts in the maritime field. 


Our Super Yacht Speciality Team within the Maritime Practice Group can deliver a host of services to your vessel, crew, and passengers, including:


  1. Super Yacht design and pre-construction security systems and operations engineering

  2. Security analyses and risk assessments of Super Yacht operations and itineraries

  3. Developing of ISPS Code- and MTSA-compliant Ship Security Plans

  4. Training of ship’s officer and crew on ISPS Code and MTSA-mandated subjects, and certification of the Super Yacht’s Ship Security Officer

  5. Bespoke engineering of complex physical security systems, e.g., CCTV, access controls, lighting solutions, fencing requirements, sonar systems, thermal imaging surveillance

  6. Project managing security infrastructure improvements


We have unsurpassed experience in Super Yacht operations and security.  In addition to serving dozens of national governments, seaports, and ocean carriers, our expert team has audited or assessed over 200 foreign ports and ships, leading one country's Transportation Minister to say about our team, they are "the undisputed world leader in maritime security."


Whether it's briefing the White House, the US Senate, or one of our many clients, our Maritime Security Group promises unsurpassed expertise, experience, and value.  They have held the highest ranks in the shipping and seaport industries; they have been leaders in the Maritime Security Council; educators at the US Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and the UN’s World Maritime University; and, they have held senior-level positions with military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies. 


Our team of experts have been featured on CNN, CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, The History Channel, NPR, ABC’s, ‘20/20’,  and CBS’s ’60 Minutes’, and are frequent lecturers and instructors to both industry and government, and have testified before Congress and briefed the National Security Council on security issues. 


Our team of experts’ backgrounds include service with CIA, Department of Defense, the White House, Army Special Forces, Navy SEALs, US Coast Guard, Justice Department, FBI,  Justice Department, US Marshal’s Service, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, various police departments – among other agencies, services, and private sector companies. 


Have our experts become your experts.

Success Stories - I

Security Dynamics team members were chosen to provide comprehensive security training to the officers and crew of the largest US-flagged private super yacht in the world. 


Training included regulatory obligations under the International Maritime Organization’s ISPS Code and the United States’ MTSA, as well as security, counter-terrorism, and counter-piracy ‘best practices’ associated with the owner’s international sailing itineraries.

Success Stories - II

Security Dynamics’ President

Kim E. Petersen has written extensively on maritime security, including articles for Superyacht Magazine.  His most recent article was entitled ‘Maritime Security and Private Yachts’.


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