Pirate activity in 13-22S 053-59E at 291120Z dec
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 2973/10
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2011-01-08 10:26Z
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) · LA REUNION 56/10 291348Z DEC 10.. Issued 2010-12-29 14:58Z. 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 -13.367, 53.983. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2010-12-29 14:58Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- LA REUNION 56/10 291348Z DEC 10.
- issued by
- LA REUNION
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -13.367, 53.983
- 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. PIRATE ACTIVITY IN 13-22S 053-59E AT 291120Z DEC. VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP 100 MILES CLEAR OF THIS POSITION AND TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION.
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
17 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.
- Pirate action group sighted in 11-22S 051-45E at 090945Z feb2011-02-09
- F/V shih fu no 1 conducting mothership operations in 13-03S 056-13E at 140600Z jan2011-01-14
- F/V shih fu no 1 conducting mothership operations in 13-05S 056-33E at 300245Z dec2010-12-30
- 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
- Previously hijacked F/V shih fu no 1 conducting mothership operations in 15-50S 052-22E at 280516Z 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 2026-09-24 23:07Z; 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.