Piracy

M/V approached by pirates in 13-30.00N 054-05.00E at 281320Z apr

Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 1413/24

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2024-05-02 15:00Z

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 IX 167/24 291445Z APR 24.. Issued 2024-04-29 15:02Z. 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 13.500, 54.083. 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: 2024-04-29 15:02Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2024-05-02 15:00Z
authority: NAVAREA IX 167/24 291445Z APR 24.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
sea: Arabian Sea
position: 13.500, 54.083
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

ARABIAN SEA.
YEMEN.
DNC 10.
1. M/V APPROACHED BY PIRATES IN
   13-30.00N 054-05.00E AT 281320Z APR. VESSELS
   ARE ADVISED TO KEEP CLEAR OF THIS POSITION
   AND TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 021500Z MAY 24.

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.
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

72 within 180 nm since 2009 · 1 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 in 14-32.00N 051-28.50E by six pirates2026-08-20
M/V approached by pirates in 14-20.00N 054-44.00E at 200200Z mar2024-03-21
M/V attacked in 14-28.00N 053-29.00E at 210811Z mar2024-03-21
M/V approached by pirates in 13-57N 051-43E at 310535Z mar2018-03-31
M/V attacked in 11-50N 054-35E at 240748Z oct2017-10-24
M/V attacked in 15-05.7N 052-29.0E at 281236Z sep2017-09-28

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 2026-09-28 08:00Z; source collection times vary.

Piracy

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