Piracy

M/V reports act of piracy in vicinity 01-16.6N 103-17.6E at 031706Z may

Malacca Strait · HYDROPAC 1591/17

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2017-05-12 00:24Z

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 050001Z MAY 17.. Issued 2017-05-05 00:24Z. 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
Malacca Strait. The parsed report position is 1.277, 103.293. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Malacca Strait →

issued
2017-05-05 00:24Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2017-05-12 00:24Z
authority
IMBPC 050001Z MAY 17.
issued by
IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER
sea
Malacca Strait
position
1.277, 103.293
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

STRAIT OF MALACCA.
MALAYSIA.
INDONESIA.
DNC 03.
1. M/V REPORTS ACT OF PIRACY IN VICINITY
   01-16.6N 103-17.6E AT 031706Z 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.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 120024Z MAY 17.

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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports

145 within 180 nm since 2006 · 3 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 piracy & armed robbery reports listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 08:47Z; 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.