M/V approached by pirates in 16-00.6N 065-55.7E at 171730Z nov
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 3574/13
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2013-11-18 14:53Z
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) · BOSUN 180521Z NOV 13.. Issued 2013-11-18 06:42Z. 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 16.010, 65.928. 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
- Cancel HYDROPAC 3574/13 and this msg, piracy threat eliminatedlater cancellation notice
These messages are connected by recorded cancellation references. The links establish relationships between notices; they do not by themselves confirm a single object, a continuous track, or recovery.
- HYDROPAC 3574/13 · this notice2013-11-18 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 3586/132013-11-18 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2013-11-18 06:42Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- BOSUN 180521Z NOV 13.
- issued by
- BOSUN
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 16.010, 65.928
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA. M/V APPROACHED BY PIRATES IN 16-00.6N 065-55.7E AT 171730Z 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.
- 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
28 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 reports approach by suspicious vessel in 16-20N 068-04E at 181300Z nov2014-11-19
- M/V attacked in 16-54N 065-59E at 140652Z apr2012-04-15
- M/V attacked in 16-27N 062-57E at 020921Z oct2011-10-02
- M/V attacked in 13-50N 065-54E at 040432Z may2011-05-04
- Vessel attacked in 17-14N 063-18E at 211202Z mar2011-03-21
- Pirated M/V irene conducting mothership operations in 14-03N 063-54E at 151458Z mar2011-03-15
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 00:54Z; 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.