Incidents · piracy

A merchant vessel reported coming under attack in 07-55S 047-40E, approximately 450 miles from seychelles at…

Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 2001/09

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2009-11-07 10:09Z

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) · ONI SPECIAL ADVISORY 021425Z NOV 09.. Issued 2009-11-02 15:18Z. 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: Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is -7.917, 47.667. 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: 2009-11-02 15:18Z
status: Archived notice
authority: ONI SPECIAL ADVISORY 021425Z NOV 09.
issued by: ONI SPECIAL ADVISORY
sea: Indian Ocean
position: -7.917, 47.667
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

A MERCHANT VESSEL REPORTED COMING UNDER ATTACK IN
07-55S 047-40E, APPROXIMATELY 450 MILES FROM SEYCHELLES
AT 021213Z NOV. TWO SKIFFS WITH FIVE AND SIX PERSONS ON
BOARD FIRED AT THE VESSEL WITH AK-47'S, DAMAGING THE
PORT WING AND BRIDGE. THE MERCHANT VESSEL INCREASED
SPEED CAUSING THE SKIFFS TO BREAK OFF THEIR ATTACK.
RPGS WERE SEEN BUT NOT USED. ALL CREW ON BOARD THE
MERCHANT VESSEL ARE REPORTED SAFE AND UNHARMED.
VESSELS TRANSITING THE AREA ARE WARNED TO MAINTAIN
STRICT COUNTER-PIRACY MEASURES AS THERE HAS BEEN A
SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF PIRATE ACTIVITY IN THE AREA IN
THE LAST FEW DAYS. WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN
CONDUCIVE TO SMALL BOAT ACTIVITY IN THE COMING DAYS,
AND THE AREA AROUND THIS INCIDENT WILL REMAIN
HIGH RISK FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 24-48 HOURS.
CAUTION ADVISED.

Reading this warning

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.
Piracy and armed robbery: Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
Persons on board (POB): The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.

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Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)

11 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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.

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 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 01:57Z; source collection times vary.

Incidents

Search-and-rescue broadcasts, published only once a case has been closed for 30 days: groundings, sinkings, capsizes, fires, man overboard, overdue vessels. Nothing here is live. All current distress & casualty cases (archived) →

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