Piracy

Vessel chased by four pirates in speed boat armed with a gun and spear in 05-15.9S 123-25.1E at 110020Z dec

Banda Sea · HYDROPAC 2341/09

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2009-12-26 18:00Z

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) · NAVAREA XI 833/09 150244Z DEC 09.. Issued 2009-12-15 03:40Z. 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
Banda Sea. The parsed report position is -5.265, 123.418. 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
2009-12-15 03:40Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA XI 833/09 150244Z DEC 09.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea
Banda Sea
position
-5.265, 123.418
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. VESSEL CHASED BY FOUR PIRATES IN
   SPEED BOAT ARMED WITH A GUN AND SPEAR
   IN 05-15.9S 123-25.1E AT 110020Z DEC.
   VESSEL TOOK ANTI PIRACY MEASURES AND
   PREVENTED THE BOARDING. CAUTION ADVISED.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 29 DEC.

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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports

1 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.

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

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 10:06Z; source collection times vary.

Piracy

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