Piracy

Four pirates board a vessel in Singapore Strait, Indonesia, at 01-09.46N 103-27.35E on 30 September at 1820Z; vessels should keep clear and be cautious.

Singapore Strait · HYDROPAC 2837/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-10-01 16:15Z

This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.

Source and dates
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-09-30 19:57Z. First collected 2026-10-01 19:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-02 01:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Singapore Strait. The parsed report position is 1.158, 103.456. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Singapore Strait →

issued
2026-09-30 19:57Z
status
Cancelled notice
self-cancels
2026-10-03 19:57Z
sea
Singapore Strait
position
1.158, 103.456
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-10-01 19:02Z

Original warning text

SINGAPORE STRAIT.
INDONESIA.
1. VESSEL BOARDED BY FOUR PIRATES IN
   01-09.46N 103-27.35E AT 301820Z SEP.
   VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP CLEAR OF THIS
   POSITION AND TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 031957Z OCT 26.

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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports

145 within 180 nm since 2006 · 4 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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26

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

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 piracy & armed robbery reports listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 01:21Z; 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.