Piracy action group sighted vicinity 06-47N 060-51E
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 2006/10
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2010-10-02 09:27Z
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 155 291046Z SEP 10.. Issued 2010-09-29 11:14Z. 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 6.783, 60.850. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2010-09-29 11:14Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MSCHOA REQ 155 291046Z SEP 10.
- issued by
- MSCHOA REQ
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 6.783, 60.850
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTHERN ARABIAN SEA. PIRACY. PIRACY ACTION GROUP SIGHTED VICINITY 06-47N 060-51E. VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP 100 MILES CLEAR OF THIS POSITION AND 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.
Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports
11 within 180 nm since 2009 · 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.
- Possible piracy activity in vicinity: a. 00-34.00N 061-29.00E2024-01-31
- M/V attacked in 06-40N 059-05E at 281100Z nov2012-11-28
- Mothership activity in 09-00N 061-00E at 061750Z oct2011-10-06
- M/V hannibal II conducting mothership operations in 06-56N 059-22E at 061951Z jan2011-01-07
- Hijacked M/V izumi conducting mothership operations in 09-10N 060-28E at 200314Z dec2010-12-20
- Previously hijacked M/V izumi conducting mothership operations in 08-51.26N 060-22.47E at 192341Z dec2010-12-20
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 2026-10-04 02:37Z; 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.