Maritime security centre

MSCHOA REQ

Recorded as: MSCHOA REQ

The name suggests a maritime security centre; seahazards has not verified who this issuer is. What follows is what the messages recorded under this name show.

Maritime security centres collect and relay reports of piracy, armed robbery, suspicious approaches and other threats to merchant ships, and advise them on precautions.

What the archive holds

586 messages in this archive record MSCHOA REQ as their authority, issued from 2009-12-01 to 2021-04-20. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Piracy accounts for 551 of 586 recorded messages (94%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Located messages lie in 7 sea areas, most often Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden.

The largest yearly count is 2010, with 245 messages.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in March and least often in July.

They reached this archive through HYDROPAC (586).

Messages by year of issue

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Warning types

Where

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROPAC 1198/21 · Derelicts · Gulf of Aden2021-04-19
    Derelict seven meter M/V adrift in vicinity 13-40.7N 050-54.4E at 190753Z apr
  2. HYDROPAC 1349/19 · Piracy · Indian Ocean2019-04-21
    F/V attacked in 00-57S 048-39E at 210830Z apr
  3. HYDROPAC 3773/18 · Piracy · Indian Ocean2018-10-16
    M/V attacked in 00-49N 050-53E at 161234Z oct
  4. HYDROPAC 730/18 · Piracy · Indian Ocean2018-02-22
    M/V attacked in 03-26N 050-27E at 222100Z feb
  5. HYDROPAC 101/18 · Incidents · Arabian Sea2018-01-09
    Distress signal received from vessel in vicinity 12-12N 056-18E at 091300Z jan
  6. HYDROPAC 4077/17 · Piracy · Gulf of Oman2017-11-23
    M/V attacked in vicinity 24-51N 058-33E at 222030Z nov
  7. HYDROPAC 4041/17 · Piracy2017-11-20
    Cancel HYDROPAC 4014/17 and this msg, piracy threat eliminated
  8. HYDROPAC 4014/17 · Piracy · Indian Ocean2017-11-18
    Possible piracy activity in area within 150 miles of 01-52S 049-23E

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROPAC 2248/09 · Other · Arabian Sea2009-12-01
    Vessel reported coming under attack in 11-45N 063-32E at 010550Z dec

Other maritime security centres

Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.