Piracy

Livestock carrier in ballast enroute to australia reports act of piracy vicinity 03-18.5N 125-05.8E at…

Celebes Sea · HYDROPAC 1094/08

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2008-06-23 00:00Z

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 XI 273/08 09 JUN 08.. Issued 2008-06-09 10:41Z. 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
Celebes Sea. The parsed report position is 3.308, 125.097. 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
2008-06-09 10:41Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA XI 273/08 09 JUN 08.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea
Celebes Sea
position
3.308, 125.097
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. LIVESTOCK CARRIER IN BALLAST ENROUTE TO
   AUSTRALIA REPORTS ACT OF PIRACY VICINITY
   03-18.5N 125-05.8E AT 070200Z JUN. PIRATES
   IN A SPEED BOAT CHASED AND OPENED FIRE
   MASTER TOOK EVASIVE MANEUVERS TO PREVENT BOARDING
   AND REDUCE CAUSALITIES TO CREW AND SHIP.
   MASTER INFORMED MANAGERS WHO IN TURN
   CONTACTED THE PIRACY REPORTING CENTRE
   FOR ASSISTANCE. THE CENTRE CONTACTED
   AUTHORITIES FOR ASSISTANCE. AFTER TWO
   HOURS OF CONTINUOUS FIRING AND CHASING,
   THE PIRATE BOAT ABORTED THE ATTEMPT.
   SHIP SUSTAINED SERIOUS DAMAGES TO
   BRIDGE, COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT AND HULL.
   CAUTION ADVISED.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 23 JUN.

Reading this warning

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

1 within 180 nm since 2008 · 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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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 2026-10-02 20:24Z; 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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