Piracy

A suspicious vessel in fishing vessel group approached a container vessel underway and fired in 12-26N…

Gulf of Thailand · HYDROPAC 2413/09

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2010-01-02 13:49Z

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 863/09 240923Z DEC 09.. Issued 2009-12-24 09:40Z. 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
Gulf of Thailand. The parsed report position is 12.433, 100.900. 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
2009-12-24 09:40Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA XI 863/09 240923Z DEC 09.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea
Gulf of Thailand
position
12.433, 100.900
vessel
FISHING VESSEL GROUP
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. A SUSPICIOUS VESSEL IN FISHING VESSEL GROUP
   APPROACHED A CONTAINER VESSEL UNDERWAY AND
   FIRED IN 12-26N 100-54E AT 231524Z DEC.
   CAUTION ADVISED.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 07 JAN 10.

Reading this warning

Piracy and armed robbery
Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
Lost containers
Shipping containers lost overboard, reported floating or semi-submerged, often in groups after a single incident.
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

2 within 180 nm since 2009 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

09
10

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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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 2026-09-29 08:03Z; 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 →

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