M/V attacked in 08-05N 056-18E at 070405Z may
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 1283/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-05-12 09:44Z
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 070448Z MAY 12.. Issued 2012-05-07 05:20Z. 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
- Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 8.083, 56.300. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
These reports were linked by category and sea, with positions within 30 nautical miles and issue dates within 30 days of another report's recorded in-force span. Links can extend through other members, so the full group can cover a larger area or period. Proximity does not confirm that they describe one incident.
- HYDROPAC 1282/122012-05-07 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 1283/12 · this notice2012-05-07 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2012-05-07 05:20Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- IMBPC 070448Z MAY 12.
- issued by
- IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 8.083, 56.300
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN. PIRACY. M/V ATTACKED IN 08-05N 056-18E AT 070405Z MAY. VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP CLEAR OF THIS POSITION AND TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. REPORTS TO IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER, TELEX: MA 34199, PHONE: 603 2031 0014, FAX: 603 2078 5769, E-MAIL: PIRACY@ICC-CCS.ORG.
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.
Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports
28 within 180 nm since 2009 · 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.
- Vessel boarded by six pirates in vicinity 06-47.00N 057-32.00E2024-01-04
- M/V attacked in 08-08N 056-18E at 070350Z may2012-05-07
- M/V eglantine pirated vicinity 07-37N 056-12E at 300732Z mar2012-03-30
- M/V orna conducting mothership operations in 09-32N 058-07E at 282252Z may2011-05-29
- M/V eagle conducting mothership operations in 07-17N 053-26E at 161310Z may2011-05-16
- F/V jih chun tsai 68 conducting mothership operations in 09-00N 055-57E at 090912Z may2011-05-09
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 2026-10-01 11:06Z; 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 →
Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.