Piracy

M/V reports act of piracy in vicinity 01-14.6N 104-02.3E at 131200Z dec

Singapore Strait · HYDROPAC 4412/17

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2017-12-22 03:59Z

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) · NAVAREA XI 817/17 150254Z DEC 17.. Issued 2017-12-15 03:59Z. 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
Singapore Strait. The parsed report position is 1.243, 104.038. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Singapore Strait →

issued
2017-12-15 03:59Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2017-12-22 03:59Z
authority
NAVAREA XI 817/17 150254Z DEC 17.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea
Singapore Strait
position
1.243, 104.038
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

SINGAPORE STRAIT.
SINGAPORE.
INDONESIA.
DNC 03.
1. M/V REPORTS ACT OF PIRACY IN VICINITY
   01-14.6N 104-02.3E AT 131200Z DEC.
   VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP CLEAR OF THIS
   POSITION AND TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION.
   REPORTS TO ANY COASTAL RADIO STATION.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 220359Z DEC 17.

Reading this warning

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.
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.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports

151 within 180 nm since 2006 · 4 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 piracy & armed robbery reports listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 20:56Z; 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.