M/V hijacked vicinity 15-58N 061-03E at 100930Z may
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 1320/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-05-11 09:45Z
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) · MSCHOA REQ 49/12 101343Z MAY 12.. Issued 2012-05-10 13:41Z. 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
- Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 15.967, 61.050. 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
- M/V hijacked vicinity 15-58N 061-03E at 100930Z maylater cancellation notice
These messages are connected by recorded cancellation references. The links establish relationships between notices; they do not by themselves confirm a single object, a continuous track, or recovery.
- HYDROPAC 1320/12 · this notice2012-05-10 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 1328/122012-05-11 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2012-05-10 13:41Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MSCHOA REQ 49/12 101343Z MAY 12.
- issued by
- MSCHOA REQ
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 15.967, 61.050
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA. PIRACY. M/V HIJACKED VICINITY 15-58N 061-03E AT 100930Z MAY. VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. REPORTS TO UKMTO DUBAI, PHONE: 97 150 552 3215, E-MAIL: UKMTO@EIM.AE.
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
56 within 180 nm since 2010 · 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 hijacked vicinity 15-58N 061-03E at 100930Z may2012-05-11
- M/V attacked in 16-58N 062-48E at 230354Z mar2012-03-23
- Possible mothership activity in 17-09N 058-17E at 012135Z mar2012-03-02
- M/V attacked and hijacked in 16-00N 062-26E on 15 feb2012-02-16
- M/V attacked vicinty 15-02N 058-14E at 160814Z jan2012-01-16
- Possible mothership activity in 15-27N 058-43E at 061151Z dec2011-12-06
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 2026-09-29 21:46Z; 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.