Piracy

Possible mothership activity in 16-43N 054-40E at 291150Z feb

Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 585/12

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2012-03-10 10:34Z

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) · ONI SPECIAL ADVISORY 291435Z FEB 12.. Issued 2012-02-29 15:47Z. 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 16.717, 54.667. 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 Arabian Sea →

issued: 2012-02-29 15:47Z
status: Archived notice
authority: ONI SPECIAL ADVISORY 291435Z FEB 12.
issued by: ONI SPECIAL ADVISORY
sea: Arabian Sea
position: 16.717, 54.667
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

ARABIAN SEA.
OMAN.
PIRACY.
POSSIBLE MOTHERSHIP ACTIVITY IN 16-43N 054-40E AT
291150Z FEB. 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.

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Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports

47 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 approached by pirates in 14-20.00N 054-44.00E at 200200Z mar2024-03-21
M/V attacked in 14-28.00N 053-29.00E at 210811Z mar2024-03-21
M/V attacked in 15-05.7N 052-29.0E at 281236Z sep2017-09-28
Vessel attacked in 15-55.5N 052-20.7E at 140652Z apr2017-04-14
M/V reports approach by suspicious vessels in 14-20N 053-11E at 090315Z apr2017-04-10
M/V attacked in 14-19.6N 053-20.6E at 071640Z mar2014-03-07

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 2026-09-29 19:11Z; 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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