Piracy

A merchant vessel reported coming under pirate attack at 280729Z may approximately 110 miles southwest of al…

Gulf of Aden · HYDROPAC 1011/09

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2009-06-06 10:14Z

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) · ONI SPECIAL ADVISORY 281312Z MAY 09.. Issued 2009-05-28 13:45Z. 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 Aden. The parsed report position is 13.023, 48.810. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued: 2009-05-28 13:45Z
status: Archived notice
authority: ONI SPECIAL ADVISORY 281312Z MAY 09.
issued by: ONI SPECIAL ADVISORY
sea: Gulf of Aden
position: 13.023, 48.810
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

A MERCHANT VESSEL REPORTED COMING UNDER
PIRATE ATTACK AT 280729Z MAY APPROXIMATELY
110 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AL MUKALLA, YEMEN
IN 13-01.4N 048-48.6E. THE PIRATE BOAT
APPROACHED THE VESSEL'S PORT QUARTER.
THE MERCHANT VESSEL WAS HEAVILY RIGGED
WITH BARBED WIRE AROUND LIKELY HOOK POINTS
AT THE MID-SHIP AND STERN AREA, AND NOT AS
DENSE ON THE QUARTER. THE MERCHANT VESSEL
WAS TRANSITING IN A CONVOY ESCORTED BY AN
INDIAN NAVAL VESSEL. THE INDIAN NAVAL
VESSEL IMMEDIATELY LAUNCHED A HELICOPTER
WHICH FIRED UPON THE PIRATE BOAT AND
SUCCESSFULLY PREVENTED THE PIRATES FROM
BOARDING. ONI ASSESSES THERE IS A HIGH
PROBABILITY OF ATTACKS IN THIS AREA FOR
AT LEAST THE NEXT 24-48 HOURS. WIND SPEEDS
DURING THIS TIME ARE EXPECTED TO BE 5 TO
10 KTS WITH WAVE HEIGHTS OF 2 TO 4 FEET.

Reading this warning

Piracy and armed robbery: Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports

112 within 180 nm since 2007 · 3 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 possibly hijacked in 13-23.00N 047-55.00E2026-09-10
M/V hijacked in vicinity balhaf (14-00.20N 048-10.46E) at 100918Z sep2026-09-10
M/V hijacked in 14-32.00N 051-28.50E by six pirates2026-08-20
M/V attacked in 12-38.65N 048-24.06E at 100457Z may2024-05-10
M/V approached by pirates in 11-32.00N 048-01.00E2024-01-28
F/V hijacked in vicinity 11-28.32N 049-52.43E on 02 jan2024-01-02

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 2026-10-04 00:35Z; 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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