Malacca Strait
IHO sea area 46A · 95° to 104° E, 1° to 8° N
- in force
- 0
- last 12 months
- 3
- archive messages
- 240
- categories
- 13
What the archive shows
240 messages are recorded since 1996-11-06 for the Malacca Strait. The selection uses the IHO sea area; a message may describe an exercise, equipment outage or continuing operation as well as a hazard report.
Exercises accounts for 55 of 240 recorded messages (23%), 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
| Exercises | 55 | 23% |
| Incidents | 50 | 21% |
| Cable ops | 38 | 16% |
| Nav aids | 22 | 9% |
| Piracy | 19 | 8% |
| Surveys | 17 | 7% |
| Wrecks | 14 | 6% |
| Other | 9 | 4% |
| Quakes | 6 | 3% |
| Derelicts | 5 | 2% |
| Ordnance | 2 | 1% |
| Debris | 2 | 1% |
| Missiles | 1 | 0% |
Archive · 240 cancelled
- HYDROPAC 1194/15 · Wrecks2015-04-09 → 2018-09-07Dangerous wreck in 02-43.0N 101-16.6E
- HYDROPAC 986/15 · Piracy2015-03-22 → 2015-03-29M/V reports act of piracy vicinity 03-56N 098-45E at 201930Z mar
- HYDROPAC 2816/14 · Piracy2014-09-23 → 2014-09-30M/V reports act of piracy vicinity 07-10N 098-12E on 22 sep
- HYDROPAC 1679/14 · Cable ops2014-06-11 → 2014-07-03Cable laying operations by cableship ile de sein 12 jun thru 10 jul vicinity of trackline joining 05-33.8N…
- HYDROPAC 1170/14 · Piracy2014-04-24 → 2014-05-01M/V reports act of piracy vicinity 02-59N 100-54E at 211755Z apr
- HYDROPAC 755/14 · Debris2014-03-17 → 2014-03-22Possible debris suspected from malaysia airlines aircraft reported vicinity 05-01.2N 098-35.7E
- HYDROPAC 740/14 · Debris2014-03-15 → 2014-03-16Possible debris suspected from malaysia airlines aircraft reported vicinity 05-51.0N 096-57.5E
- HYDROPAC 613/14 · Incidents2014-03-03 → 2014-03-29Distress signal received on 406 mhz from 42 foot S/V kite vicinity phuket (07-53-24N 098-23-54E)
- HYDROPAC 258/14 · Incidents2014-01-26 → 2014-02-02Distress signal received vicinity 02-53N 100-48E at 260038Z jan
- HYDROPAC 3473/13 · Piracy2013-11-08 → 2013-11-16M/V attacked in 01-20.6N 103-18.2E at 061930Z nov
- HYDROPAC 2777/13 · Wrecks2013-09-13 → 2013-09-14F/V ching shang mei sank in 03-43.00N 099-59.99E
- HYDROPAC 2757/13 · Incidents2013-09-12 → 2013-09-13F/V sinking in 03-43.00N 099-58.98E
- HYDROPAC 2702/13 · Incidents2013-09-07 → 2013-09-28Distress signal received from vessel silvaplana in 04-12N 099-29E at 070525Z sep
- HYDROPAC 1576/13 · Incidents2013-05-31 → 2013-06-22Man overboard from M/V hanjin new york in 01-17.155N 103-18.603E at 311210Z may
- USGS-USB000ESGN · Quakes2013-01-21 → 2013-01-2450 km s of sigli, indonesia
- HYDROPAC 3420/12 · Cable ops2012-12-03 → 2013-02-15Seismic survey 040001Z dec to 150001Z feb 13 by M/V akademik fersman towing 8000 meter long cable in area…
- HYDROPAC 806/12 · Cable ops2012-03-20 → 2012-04-16Seismic survey in progress until 15 apr by M/V nordic energy towing 6500 meter long cable in area bound by…
- HYDROPAC 3538/11 · Piracy2011-12-19 → 2012-01-02M/V attacked in 01-13.5N 103-21.0E at 121800Z dec
- HYDROPAC 2250/11 · Incidents2011-08-11 → 2011-08-27Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 01-15N 103-15E at 110741Z aug
- HYDROPAC 2232/11 · Missiles2011-08-09 → 2011-08-12Hazardous operations 0001Z to 0900Z daily 09 thru 12 aug in area bound by 05-28N 099-08E, 05-48N 098-53E,…
Sea boundaries: Flanders Marine Institute (2018), IHO Sea Areas v3, marineregions.org (CC BY 4.0). Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts.