M/V conducting mothership operations in 12-45S 051-46E at 250650Z dec
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 2905/10
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2010-12-26 12:22Z
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 304/10 250710Z DEC 10.. Issued 2010-12-25 07:35Z. 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
- Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is -12.750, 51.767. 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
- M/V polar conducting mothership operations in 11-24S 050-24E at 242050Z deccancelled by this notice
- M/V conducting mothership operations in 14-45S 055-51E at 261052Z 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 2892/102010-12-24 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 2899/102010-12-24 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 2905/10 · this notice2010-12-25 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 2906/102010-12-25 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 2920/102010-12-26 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 2924/102010-12-26 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2010-12-25 07:35Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MSCHOA REQ 304/10 250710Z DEC 10.
- issued by
- MSCHOA REQ
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -12.750, 51.767
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN. MADAGASCAR-NORTHEAST COAST. PIRACY. 1. M/V CONDUCTING MOTHERSHIP OPERATIONS IN 12-45S 051-46E AT 250650Z 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 2899/10.
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
11 within 180 nm since 2010 · 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 attacked in 11-33S 050-45E at 190728Z feb2011-02-19
- Pirate action group sighted in 11-22S 051-45E at 090945Z feb2011-02-09
- F/V attacked in 13-09S 048-49E at 011321Z jan2011-01-01
- Pirate activity in 13-22S 053-59E at 291120Z dec2010-12-29
- Previously hijacked F/V shih fu no 1 conducting mothership operations in 13-31S 052-20E at 282128Z dec2010-12-29
- Pirate activity in 14-47S 052-13E at 281157Z dec2010-12-28
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 2026-10-02 01:39Z; 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.