Incidents · piracy

M/V, 25 persons on board, possibly hijacked in 04-03.22N 007-13.50E at 071904Z feb

Gulf of Guinea · HYDROLANT 432/17

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2017-05-26 11:45Z

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) · IMBPC 080108Z FEB 17.. Issued 2017-02-08 02:17Z. 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 4.054, 7.225. 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
2017-02-08 02:17Z
status
Archived notice
authority
IMBPC 080108Z FEB 17.
issued by
IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER
sea
Gulf of Guinea
position
4.054, 7.225
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

GULF OF GUINEA.
NIGERIA.
DNC 01.
M/V, 25 PERSONS ON BOARD, POSSIBLY HIJACKED
IN 04-03.22N 007-13.50E AT 071904Z FEB. VESSELS
ARE ADVISED TO KEEP CLEAR OF THIS POSITION AND
TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. REPORTS TO
IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER,
PHONE: 603 2031 0014, FAX: 603 2078 5769,
E-MAIL: PIRACY@ICC-CCS.ORG, IMBKL@ICC-CCS.ORG
AND TO MDAT-GOG, PHONE: 332 9822 8888,
E-MAIL: WATCHKEEPERS@MDAT-GOG.ORG.

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.
Persons on board (POB)
The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
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.
Piracy and armed robbery
Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.

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Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)

17 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 19:54Z; source collection times vary.

Incidents

Search-and-rescue broadcasts, published only once a case has been closed for 30 days: groundings, sinkings, capsizes, fires, man overboard, overdue vessels. Nothing here is live. All current distress & casualty cases (archived) →

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