Gulf of Aden
IHO sea area 38 · 43° to 51° E, 10° to 15° N
- in force
- 0
- last 12 months
- 4
- archive messages
- 257
- categories
- 12
What the archive shows
257 messages are recorded since 1997-03-09 for the Gulf of Aden. The selection uses the IHO sea area; a message may describe an exercise, equipment outage or continuing operation as well as a hazard report.
Piracy accounts for 137 of 257 recorded messages (53%), the largest category group in this selection.
The NGA historical archive froze in 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. Counts around that gap are incomplete, and changes in reporting volume do not establish changes in incident frequency.
In force now · 0
Nothing in force in this sea right now.
By year
By month (all years)
By category · available archive
| Piracy | 137 | 53% |
| Incidents | 40 | 16% |
| Ordnance | 21 | 8% |
| Other | 16 | 6% |
| Derelicts | 13 | 5% |
| Quakes | 12 | 5% |
| Cable ops | 9 | 4% |
| Exercises | 3 | 1% |
| Containers | 2 | 1% |
| Surveys | 2 | 1% |
| Spills | 1 | 0% |
| Missiles | 1 | 0% |
Ports on this sea · 7
Busiest first by annual vessel calls (IMF PortWatch); each port page shows the warnings within 60 nm, its World Port Index profile and monthly port calls.
- Djibouti · Djibouti17 archived
- Aden · Yemen28 archived
- Berbera · Somalia3 archived
- Mukalla · Yemen19 archived
- Bossaso · Somalia5 archived
- Rudum Terminal · Yemen14 archived
- Yemen LNG Terminal · Yemen31 archived
Archive · 257 cancelled
- HYDROPAC 2620/26 · Piracy2026-09-10 → 2026-09-03A merchant vessel may have been hijacked in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen at 13-23.00N 047-55.00E; ships are advised to keep clear and use caution.
- HYDROPAC 2617/26 · Piracy2026-09-10 → 2026-09-10A merchant ship is hijacked near Balhaf, Yemen, in the Gulf of Aden on 10 September; vessels are advised to keep clear and exercise extreme caution.
- USGS-US7000TCF3 · Quakes2026-08-27 → 2026-08-30144 km n of caluula, somalia
- HYDROPAC 1129/26 · Incidents2026-04-16 → 2026-08-17Vessel, blue hull, two persons on board, unreported in vicinity balhaf (13-56.98N 048-09.49E)
- HYDROPAC 1563/24 · Piracy2024-05-10 → 2024-05-13M/V attacked in 12-38.65N 048-24.06E at 100457Z may
- HYDROPAC 827/24 · Derelicts2024-03-12 → 2024-03-1530 foot derelict vessel adrift in 11-27.14N 043-30.49E at 120930Z mar
- HYDROPAC 768/24 · Derelicts2024-03-07 → 2024-03-10Derelict M/V true confidence adrift in 11-54.20N 044-29.30E
- HYDROPAC 757/24 · Piracy2024-03-06 → 2024-03-09M/V attacked in 11-49.00N 044-38.00E on 06 mar
- NOAAORR-10746 · Spills2024-02-22 → 2024-03-07Gulf of aden
- HYDROPAC 581/24 · Other2024-02-19 → 2024-02-22M/vs attacked in: a. 12-42.47N 043-19.27E on 18 feb
- HYDROPAC 446/24 · Piracy2024-02-06 → 2024-02-09Vessel attacked in 11-59.00N 044-30.00E on 06 feb
- HYDROPAC 335/24 · Piracy2024-01-28 → 2024-01-31M/V approached by pirates in 11-32.00N 048-01.00E
- HYDROPAC 214/24 · Piracy2024-01-18 → 2024-01-21M/V attacked by drone in 11-58.00N 045-31.00E on 17 jan
- HYDROPAC 172/24 · Missiles2024-01-15 → 2024-01-18M/V struck by missile in 12-23.00N 046-49.00E at 151300Z jan
- HYDROPAC 24/24 · Piracy2024-01-02 → 2024-01-05F/V hijacked in vicinity 11-28.32N 049-52.43E on 02 jan
- USGS-US7000LGCH · Quakes2023-12-05 → 2023-12-08150 km nnw of las khorey, somalia
- HYDROPAC 2232/23 · Incidents2023-07-08 → 2023-07-08Vessel capsized in 11-58.90N 044-44.22E at 081237Z jul
- HYDROPAC 2128/23 · Incidents2023-06-29 → 2023-07-07Distress signal received from F/V sumbuq in 12-30.90N 047-23.00E at 290725Z jun
- USGS-US7000K63P · Quakes2023-06-03 → 2023-06-06155 km n of las khorey, somalia
- USGS-US7000K62H · Quakes2023-06-03 → 2023-06-06145 km n of las khorey, somalia
Sea boundaries: Flanders Marine Institute (2018), IHO Sea Areas v3, marineregions.org (CC BY 4.0). Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts.