Piracy

Pirated M/V irene conducting mothership operations in 16-50N 060-04E at 171300Z mar

Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 834/11

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2011-03-18 13:52Z

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 146/11 171339Z MAR 11.. Issued 2011-03-17 13:51Z. 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 16.833, 60.067. 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

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  3. HYDROPAC 759/112011-03-11 · Archived notice
  4. HYDROPAC 784/112011-03-13 · Archived notice
  5. HYDROPAC 786/112011-03-13 · Archived notice
  6. HYDROPAC 796/112011-03-14 · Archived notice
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issued
2011-03-17 13:51Z
status
Archived notice
authority
MSCHOA REQ 146/11 171339Z MAR 11.
issued by
MSCHOA REQ
sea
Arabian Sea
position
16.833, 60.067
vessel
M/V IRENE · 12 messages
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

ARABIAN SEA.
PIRACY.
1. PIRATED M/V IRENE CONDUCTING MOTHERSHIP OPERATIONS
   IN 16-50N 060-04E AT 171300Z 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.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 820/11.

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.

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Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports

71 within 180 nm since 2010 · 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 2026-10-02 02:54Z; 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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