Piracy

M/V approached by pirates in 03-55N 001-03W at 220849Z sep

Gulf of Guinea · HYDROLANT 2885/20

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2020-09-29 09:43Z

This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.

Source and dates: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · NAVAREA II 273/20 220941Z SEP 20.. Issued 2020-09-22 09:43Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Gulf of Guinea. The parsed report position is 3.917, -1.050. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Gulf of Guinea →

issued: 2020-09-22 09:43Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2020-09-29 09:43Z
authority: NAVAREA II 273/20 220941Z SEP 20.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
sea: Gulf of Guinea
position: 3.917, -1.050
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

GULF OF GUINEA.
GHANA.
DNC 01.
1. M/V APPROACHED BY PIRATES IN 03-55N 001-03W
   AT 220849Z SEP. VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP
   CLEAR OF THIS POSITION AND TO EXERCISE
   EXTREME CAUTION.
   REPORTS TO MDAT-GOG,
   PHONE: 332 9822 8888, 332 5631 2424,
   FAX: 332 5631 2584,
   E-MAIL: WATCHKEEPERS@MDAT-GOG.ORG,
   COORD.NAVAREA2@SHOM.FR.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 290943Z SEP 20.

Reading this warning

DNC (Digital Nautical Chart): A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
Piracy and armed robbery: Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
Position (degrees and minutes): How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
Date-time group (DTG): A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
CANCEL THIS MSG: The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports

18 within 180 nm since 2014 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.

M/V approached by pirates in 01-30N 001-32W at 100606Z nov2021-11-10
F/V attacked in 04-33.5N 000-15.6E at 191830Z may2021-05-20
M/V attacked in 05-04N 001-07E at 170419Z nov2020-11-17
M/V attacked in 04-08N 001-24E at 172003Z oct2020-10-18
M/V attacked in 04-08N 001-24E at 172003Z oct2020-10-18
F/V hijacked in 04-25N 001-51E at 281305Z aug2020-08-28

Month of issue in the collected archive

All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.

Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 piracy & armed robbery reports listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-24 23:08Z; source collection times vary.

Piracy

Vessels attacked or boarded, suspicious approaches, pirate action groups — Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Guinea, Malacca and Singapore Straits, South China Sea. All current piracy & armed robbery reports →

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