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% |
| Spills | 1 | 0% |
| Missiles | 1 | 0% |
Archive · 257 cancelled
- HYDROPAC 3073/14 · Piracy2014-10-15 → 2014-10-18M/V reports approach by suspicious vessel in 13-33N 050-27E at 151510Z oct
- HYDROPAC 1997/14 · Containers2014-07-07 → 2014-07-10Four containers adrift vicinity 13-40N 050-53E at 071155Z jul
- HYDROPAC 1880/14 · Piracy2014-06-27 → 2014-06-28M/V reports approach by suspicious vessel vicinity 13-16N 049-11E at 272251Z jun
- HYDROPAC 1307/14 · Derelicts2014-05-06 → 2014-05-09Derelict M/V altinia adrift in 12-28N 046-12E at 060253Z may
- HYDROPAC 1241/14 · Piracy2014-04-30 → 2014-05-10M/V approached by pirates in 12-03N 045-37E at 291300Z apr
- HYDROPAC 1079/14 · Piracy2014-04-16 → 2014-05-03M/V approached by pirates in 12-25N 043-43E at 141230Z apr
- HYDROPAC 1071/14 · Incidents2014-04-16 → 2014-05-31Search and rescue operations in area bound by 13-14N 046-30E, 13-38N 047-54E, 12-22N 048-19E, 11-57N 046-54E
- HYDROPAC 1056/14 · Incidents2014-04-15 → 2014-05-03Man overboard from M/V kang gam chan vicinity of trackline between 12-29.7N 047-23.7E at 142200Z apr and…
- HYDROPAC 510/14 · Derelicts2014-02-21 → 2014-02-24Derelict vessel partially submerged vicinity 12-16N 049-21E at 211100Z feb
- HYDROPAC 3932/13 · Piracy2013-12-18 → 2013-12-21M/V attacked in 12-05.54N 045-24.39E at 180505Z dec
- HYDROPAC 3834/13 · Piracy2013-12-09 → 2013-12-14M/V attacked in 12-50N 047-49E at 090357Z dec
- HYDROPAC 3833/13 · Piracy2013-12-09 → 2013-12-14M/V attacked in 12-52N 047-52E at 090357Z dec
- HYDROPAC 3022/13 · Derelicts2013-10-02 → 2013-10-05Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in 13-46N 050-43E at 020400Z oct
- HYDROPAC 2874/13 · Containers2013-09-20 → 2013-09-23Container adrift in 12-40N 047-22E at 201025Z sep
- HYDROPAC 1619/13 · Piracy2013-06-05 → 2013-06-08F/V hijacked in 11-36N 049-15E at 050626Z jun
- HYDROPAC 1464/13 · Piracy2013-05-21 → 2013-05-25M/V yong xing attacked in 13-11N 048-54E at 201220Z may
- HYDROPAC 1450/13 · Piracy2013-05-19 → 2013-05-25M/V approached by pirates in 12-12N 044-20E at 190525Z may
- HYDROPAC 1280/13 · Piracy2013-05-06 → 2013-05-11M/V attacked in 13-40N 048-30E at 050300Z may
- HYDROPAC 635/13 · Derelicts2013-03-05 → 2013-03-08Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift vicinity 13-06N 048-53E at 040830Z mar
- HYDROPAC 448/13 · Derelicts2013-02-14 → 2013-02-17Derelict 15 meter F/V, yellow hull, partially submerged and adrift in 12-15.3N 045-57.3E at 140530Z feb
Sea boundaries: Flanders Marine Institute (2018), IHO Sea Areas v3, marineregions.org (CC BY 4.0). Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts.