Hijacked M/V izumi conducting mothership operations in 08-37N 056-34E at 240340Z dec
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 2890/10
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2010-12-24 11:37Z
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 297/10 240426Z DEC 10.. Issued 2010-12-24 05:50Z. 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 8.617, 56.567. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Hijacked M/V izumi conducting mothership operations in 09-26N 058-10E at 231940Z deccancelled by this notice
- Hijacked M/V izumi conducting mothership operations in 07-50N 055-08E at 241026Z declater cancellation notice
These reports were linked by category and sea, with positions within 30 nautical miles and issue dates within 30 days of another report's recorded in-force span. Links can extend through other members, so the full group can cover a larger area or period. Proximity does not confirm that they describe one incident.
- HYDROPAC 2829/102010-12-18 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 2833/102010-12-19 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 2838/102010-12-19 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 2840/102010-12-20 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 2842/102010-12-20 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 2853/102010-12-21 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2010-12-24 05:50Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MSCHOA REQ 297/10 240426Z DEC 10.
- issued by
- MSCHOA REQ
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 8.617, 56.567
- vessel
- M/V IZUMI · 15 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTHERN ARABIAN SEA. PIRACY. 1. HIJACKED M/V IZUMI CONDUCTING MOTHERSHIP OPERATIONS IN 08-37N 056-34E AT 240340Z DEC. 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. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 2889/10.
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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROPAC
- The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports
26 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.
- Vessel boarded by six pirates in vicinity 06-47.00N 057-32.00E2024-01-04
- M/V attacked in 08-05N 056-18E at 070405Z may2012-05-07
- M/V attacked in 08-08N 056-18E at 070350Z may2012-05-07
- M/V eglantine pirated vicinity 07-37N 056-12E at 300732Z mar2012-03-30
- M/V orna conducting mothership operations in 09-32N 058-07E at 282252Z may2011-05-29
- F/V jih chun tsai 68 conducting mothership operations in 09-00N 055-57E at 090912Z may2011-05-09
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 2026-09-24 23:08Z; 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.