Possible mothership activity in 01-14.9N 056-12.0E at 280957Z dec
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 2951/10
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2010-12-29 10:53Z
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) · IMBPC 281030Z DEC 10.. Issued 2010-12-28 11:41Z. 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 1.248, 56.200. 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
- issued
- 2010-12-28 11:41Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- IMBPC 281030Z DEC 10.
- issued by
- IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- 1.248, 56.200
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN. PIRACY. POSSIBLE MOTHERSHIP ACTIVITY IN 01-14.9N 056-12.0E AT 280957Z DEC. VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP 100 MILES CLEAR OF THIS POSITION AND TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. REPORTS TO IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER, TELEX: 34199, PHONE: 603 2031 0014, E-MAIL: piracy@icc-ccs.org.
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.
Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports
18 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.
- M/V reports possible piracy activity in 01-27.00N 054-53.00E at 120953Z mar2024-03-13
- M/V attacked in 01-27.00N 054-53.00E at 120853Z mar2024-03-12
- F/V attacked in 04-09N 056-49E at 140700Z oct2013-10-14
- M/V attacked in 01-16N 058-07E at 170952Z aug2012-08-17
- M/V attacked vicinity 03-55N 056-20E at 020403Z oct2011-10-02
- M/V attacked in 01-49N 056-35E at 221236Z jan2011-01-22
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 04:04Z; 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.