M/V approached by pirates in 03-40.4N 119-51.6E at 131620Z nov
Celebes Sea · HYDROPAC 3515/16
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2016-12-08 13:58Z
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 141200Z NOV 16.. Issued 2016-11-14 12:41Z. 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
- Celebes Sea. The parsed report position is 3.673, 119.860. 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
- 2016-11-14 12:41Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- IMBPC 141200Z NOV 16.
- issued by
- IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER
- sea
- Celebes Sea
- position
- 3.673, 119.860
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CELEBES SEA. PIRACY. DNC 11. M/V APPROACHED BY PIRATES IN 03-40.4N 119-51.6E AT 131620Z NOV. VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP 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.
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- 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
21 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.
- Two F/V attacked, three persons kidnapped in 05-34.05N 119-07.05E at 230358Z sep2019-09-24
- Imb piracy center reports possible highjacking activity in vicinity of sitangkai (04-43N 119-23E) to…2019-05-26
- Imb piracy center reports possible highjacking activity by two speedboats in vicinity of semporna (04-29N…2019-03-13
- F/V attacked in 04-40.4N 118-43.1E at 101800Z sep2018-09-12
- Tug boat attacked in 05-27N 119-08E on 10 aug2018-08-13
- M/V reports act of piracy in sandakan (05-48.1N 118-05.4E) at 100600Z jul2018-07-11
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 2026-09-28 15:59Z; 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.