Piracy

M/V liberty sun attacked by pirates vicinity 02-38S 046-25E at 141510Z apr

Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 750/09

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2009-04-17 00:01Z

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 141703Z APR 09.. Issued 2009-04-14 18:15Z. 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 -0.183, 47.025. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

These messages are connected by recorded cancellation references. The links establish relationships between notices; they do not by themselves confirm a single object, a continuous track, or recovery.

  1. HYDROPAC 748/092009-04-14 · Archived notice
  2. HYDROPAC 750/09 · this notice2009-04-14 · Archived notice
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Current notices and reporting history in the Indian Ocean →

issued
2009-04-14 18:15Z
status
Archived notice
authority
ONI SPECIAL ADVISORY 141703Z APR 09.
issued by
ONI SPECIAL ADVISORY
sea
Indian Ocean
position
-0.183, 47.025
vessel
M/V LIBERTY SUN
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. M/V LIBERTY SUN ATTACKED BY PIRATES VICINITY
   02-38S 046-25E AT 141510Z APR. ANOTHER VESSEL
   ALSO REPORTED COMING UNDER ATTACKED VICINITY
   02-16N 047-38E AT 141117Z APR. PROBABILITY
   OF ADDITIONAL ATTACKS IN THESE AREAS REMAIN
   HIGH OVER THE NEXT 48 HOURS.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 748/09.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 17 APR.

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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROPAC
The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports

16 within 180 nm since 2009 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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 2026-10-04 01:16Z; 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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