Piracy

M/V attacked in 11-02S 046-57E at 151317Z mar

Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 505/10

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2010-03-27 09:48Z

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) · MSCHOA REQ 44/10 151526Z MAR 10.. Issued 2010-03-15 15:39Z. 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 -11.033, 46.950. 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 Indian Ocean →

issued: 2010-03-15 15:39Z
status: Archived notice
authority: MSCHOA REQ 44/10 151526Z MAR 10.
issued by: MSCHOA REQ
sea: Indian Ocean
position: -11.033, 46.950
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

NORTHERN MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL.
PIRACY.
M/V ATTACKED IN 11-02S 046-57E AT 151317Z MAR.
WEAPONS FIRED AND ANTI-PIRACY MEASURES WERE
TAKEN. PIRATE GROUP CONSISTED OF TWO SKIFFS.
VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP 100 MILES CLEAR
OF THIS POSITION AND ARE ADVISED TO EXERCISE
EXTREME CAUTION. REPORTS TO UKMTO DUBAI,
PHONE: 97 150 552 3215, E-MAIL: UKMTO@EIM.AE.

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.

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Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports

8 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 mekong river attacked in 12-47.52S 046-19.72E at 210636Z sep2011-09-21
F/V attacked in 13-09S 048-49E at 011321Z jan2011-01-01
M/V polar conducting mothership operations in 09-21-24S 049-09-02E at 240842Z dec2010-12-24
Possible mothership activity vicinity 13-02.6S 046-50.5E2010-05-26
M/V attacked in 09-20S 044-32E at 041406Z apr2010-04-04
M/V attacked in 11-06S 046-07E at 021100Z apr2010-04-02

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 2026-09-25 00:11Z; 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 →

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