Piracy

Possible mothership activity by M/V sinar kudus in 11-07N 052-43E at 231032Z mar

Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 928/11

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2011-04-02 09:37Z

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 178/11 231122Z MAR 11.. Issued 2011-03-23 12:20Z. 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 11.117, 52.717. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

ARABIAN SEA.
PIRACY.
1. POSSIBLE MOTHERSHIP ACTIVITY BY M/V SINAR KUDUS
   IN 11-07N 052-43E AT 231032Z 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 905/11.

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

37 within 180 nm since 2003 · 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 approached by pirates in 13-30.00N 054-05.00E at 281320Z apr2024-04-29
F/V hijacked in vicinity 11-28.32N 049-52.43E on 02 jan2024-01-02
M/V approached by pirates in 13-57N 051-43E at 310535Z mar2018-03-31
M/V attacked in 11-50N 054-35E at 240748Z oct2017-10-24
Possible mothe rship activity in 11-57N 050-35E2017-05-26
M/V aris 13 hijacked in 11-47N 050-31E at 150800Z mar2017-03-15

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 2026-10-03 10:29Z; 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.

What this record establishes

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