Piracy

M/V attacked in 09-20S 044-32E at 041406Z apr

Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 685/10

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2010-04-17 09:16Z

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 65/10 041548Z APR 10. Issued 2010-04-04 16:11Z. 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 -9.333, 44.533. 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: 2010-04-04 16:11Z
status: Archived notice
authority: MSCHOA REQ 65/10 041548Z APR 10
issued by: MSCHOA REQ
sea: Indian Ocean
position: -9.333, 44.533
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN.
PIRACY.
M/V ATTACKED IN 09-20S 044-32E AT 041406Z APR.
VESSELS PASSING WITHIN 100 MILES ARE ADVISED
TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. REPORTS TO
UKMTO DUBAI, PHONE: 9 715 0552 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

15 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 attacked in 11-26S 042-34E at 110923Z oct2011-10-11
M/V attacked in 06-57S 045-40E at 241500Z apr2011-04-24
M/V attacked in 09-56S 041-48E at 101233Z dec2010-12-10
M/V attacked in 09-57S 041-46E at 101212Z dec2010-12-10
M/V attacked in 09-57S 042-19E at 310632Z oct2010-10-31
M/V attacked in 09-58S 042-15E at 121507Z may2010-05-12

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 02:18Z; source collection times vary.

Piracy

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