F/V hijacked in jifle (07-28.20N 049-41.30E) by 11 armed pirates and headed east
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 713/24
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-03-06 02:21Z
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) · IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER 0/24 030201Z MAR 24.. Issued 2024-03-03 02:26Z. 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 7.470, 49.688. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2024-03-03 02:26Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2024-03-06 02:21Z
- authority
- IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER 0/24 030201Z MAR 24.
- issued by
- IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- 7.470, 49.688
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORTHWESTERN INDIAN OCEAN. SOMALIA. DNC 02. 1. F/V HIJACKED IN JIFLE (07-28.20N 049-41.30E) BY 11 ARMED PIRATES AND HEADED EAST. VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO KEEP CLEAR OF THIS POSITION AND TO EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. REPORTS TO IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER, PHONE: 603 2031 0014, E-MAIL: IMBKL@ICC-CCS.ORG, PIRACY@ICC-CCS.ORG. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 060221Z MAR 24.
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.
- 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.
- Piracy and armed robbery
- Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
- 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
40 within 180 nm since 2002 · 1 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.
- Vessel attacked in vicinity 08-14.54N 050-11.70E on 17 aug2026-08-17
- M/V ruen hijacked in 06-40.58N 052-09.19E at 160941Z mar2024-03-16
- M/V ruen hijacked in 06-40.00N 052-11.00E at 141515Z mar2024-03-14
- Two fishing vessels hijacked in 08-19.00N 050-10.00E on 12 jan2024-01-14
- Two vessels hijacked in vicinity eyl (07-58.00N 049-51.00E) at 240130Z dec2023-12-24
- Vessel attacked in vicinity eyl, somalia (07-57.45N 049-51.37E) at 221630Z dec2023-12-22
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 2026-09-26 18:37Z; 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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