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.
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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% |
| Missiles | 1 | 0% |
| Spills | 1 | 0% |
Archive · 257 cancelled
- HYDROPAC 239/10 · Piracy2010-02-05 → 2010-02-20M/V attacked by pirates in 13-00N 048-45E at 050600Z feb
- HYDROPAC 220/10 · Piracy2010-02-03 → 2010-02-20M/V hijacked in 13-04N 047-04E at 030815Z feb
- HYDROPAC 201/10 · Piracy2010-02-01 → 2010-02-13M/V attacked in 12-44.0N 047-27.6E at 011325Z feb
- HYDROPAC 200/10 · Piracy2010-02-01 → 2010-02-01M/V attacked in 12-44.0N 047-27.6E at 011325Z jan
- HYDROPAC 188/10 · Ordnance2010-01-31 → 2010-03-01Bombing exercises 312359Z jan to 282359Z feb in areas: a. between 13-02.0N 13-12.0N and 046-16.0E 046-28.0E
- HYDROPAC 109/10 · Piracy2010-01-20 → 2010-02-06Vessel attacked in 13-23N 047-22E at 200330Z jan
- HYDROPAC 88/10 · Piracy2010-01-17 → 2010-01-30Vessel attacked in 12-39N 047-33E at 171651Z jan
- HYDROPAC 87/10 · Piracy2010-01-17 → 2010-01-30Vessel attacked in 12-58N 048-32E at 171001Z jan
- HYDROPAC 80/10 · Piracy2010-01-16 → 2010-01-23Vessel attacked by pirates in a skiff with white hull in 13-01N 048-46E at 160446Z jan
- HYDROPAC 9/10 · Piracy2010-01-01 → 2010-01-17Vessel attacked and boarded in 12-31N 047-17E at 010944Z jan
- HYDROPAC 8/10 · Ordnance2010-01-01 → 2010-02-01Bombing exercises in progress until 312359Z jan in areas: a. between 13-02.0N 13-12.0N and 046-16.0E 046-28.0E
- HYDROPAC 2433/09 · Piracy2009-12-28 → 2010-01-09M/V hijacked in 12-58N 048-34E at 281549Z dec
- HYDROPAC 2395/09 · Other2009-12-21 → 2010-01-01Bombing exercises 220001Z to 312359Z dec in areas bound by: a. 13-13-14N 047-13-25E, 13-04-00N 047-16-34E,…
- HYDROPAC 2233/09 · Exercises2009-11-29 → 2009-12-01Gunnery exercises 300001Z to 302359Z nov in area bound by 09-48N 043-43E, 11-00N 047-30E, 11-00N 050-00E,…
- USGS-USP000H3RZ · Quakes2009-11-05 → 2009-11-08120 km se of aden, yemen
- HYDROPAC 1691/09 · Other2009-09-19 → 2009-09-26Vessels report coming under attack in 13-53N 051-05E at 190700Z sep
- HYDROPAC 1263/09 · Other2009-07-13 → 2009-08-01M/V a elephant on fire in 12-20.9N 043-46.0E at 130514Z jul
- HYDROPAC 1113/09 · Piracy2009-06-15 → 2009-06-20Two merchant vessels reported coming under attack in 12-35N 043-26E at 141440Z jun, just east of bab el mandeb
- HYDROPAC 1011/09 · Piracy2009-05-28 → 2009-06-06A merchant vessel reported coming under pirate attack at 280729Z may approximately 110 miles southwest of al…
- HYDROPAC 748/09 · Piracy2009-04-14 → 2009-04-14MV irene E.M hijacked vicinity 12-54N 048-15E at 140826Z apr, approximately 100 miles south of al mukala,…
Sea boundaries: Flanders Marine Institute (2018), IHO Sea Areas v3, marineregions.org (CC BY 4.0). Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts.