Vessel reported hijacked
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 2285/10
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2010-11-13 10:14Z
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 186/10 282119Z OCT 10.. Issued 2010-10-28 21:38Z. 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 12.133, 54.417. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2010-10-28 21:38Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MSCHOA REQ 186/10 282119Z OCT 10.
- issued by
- MSCHOA REQ
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 12.133, 54.417
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
GULF OF ADEN. PIRACY. VESSEL REPORTED HIJACKED. LAST KNOWN POSITION 12-08N 054-25E AT 281156Z OCT. VESSELS TRANSITING THE AREA ARE ADVISED 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.
- Last known position
- The most recent confirmed position of a missing vessel or person — the starting point of a search.
- 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
56 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.
- M/V approached by pirates in 13-30.00N 054-05.00E at 281320Z apr2024-04-29
- 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 attacked in 11-50N 054-35E at 240748Z oct2017-10-24
- M/V reports approach by suspicious vessels in 14-20N 053-11E at 090315Z apr2017-04-10
- M/V reports approach by suspicious vessel in 13-14-20N 056-34-10E at 051530Z apr2014-04-06
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 2026-10-03 22:44Z; 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.