Piracy

Pirate action group in 07-33S 048-48E at 081345Z mar

Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 731/11

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2011-03-19 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 126/11 081454Z MAR 11.. Issued 2011-03-08 15:03Z. 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 -7.550, 48.800. 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: 2011-03-08 15:03Z
status: Archived notice
authority: MSCHOA REQ 126/11 081454Z MAR 11.
issued by: MSCHOA REQ
sea: Indian Ocean
position: -7.550, 48.800
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN.
PIRACY.
PIRATE ACTION GROUP IN 07-33S 048-48E
AT 081345Z MAR. VESSELS ARE ADVISED TO
KEEP 100 MILES CLEAR OF THIS POSITION
AND 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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports

11 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 07-20S 048-37E at 091405Z nov2013-11-09
M/V attacked in 05-31S 047-07E at 060340Z nov2013-11-06
M/V attacked in 05-21S 049-18E at 260306Z mar2012-03-26
M/V polar conducting mothership operations in 09-21-24S 049-09-02E at 240842Z dec2010-12-24
Possible mothership activity in 06-21S 049-40E at 231636Z dec2010-12-23
Pirate action group in 06-12S 050-02E at 180953Z nov2010-11-18

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 14:04Z; 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.