M/V approached by pirates in 14-45N 050-58E at 160512Z may
Gulf of Aden · HYDROPAC 1429/16
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2016-05-22 09:10Z
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 160845Z MAY 16.. Issued 2016-05-16 09:15Z. 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 14.750, 50.967. 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
- Cancel HYDROPAC 1060/16, 1353/16, 1395/16, 1418/16, 1420/16, 1429/16, 1454/16, 1475/16, 1490/16later cancellation notice
- issued
- 2016-05-16 09:15Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- IMBPC 160845Z MAY 16.
- issued by
- IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER
- sea
- Gulf of Aden
- position
- 14.750, 50.967
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
GULF OF ADEN. ARABIAN SEA. PIRACY. DNC 10. M/V APPROACHED BY PIRATES IN 14-45N 050-58E AT 160512Z MAY. VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP CLEAR OF THIS POSITION AND TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. REPORTS TO IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER, PHONE: 603 2031 0014, FAX: 603 2078 5769, E-MAIL: IMBKL@ICC-CCS.ORG, PIRACY@ICC-CCS.ORG.
Reading this warning
- Piracy and armed robbery
- Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
- 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.
- 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
95 within 180 nm since 2007 · 2 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 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 14-28.00N 053-29.00E at 210811Z mar2024-03-21
- Vessel attacked in 13-43.00N 050-37.40E at 171230Z may2020-05-18
- M/V approached by pirates in 13-57N 051-43E at 310535Z mar2018-03-31
- Vessel attacked in 14-08.7N 048-57.3E at 211940Z nov2017-11-21
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 2026-10-02 03:24Z; 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 →
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.