Piracy

M/V reports approach by four suspicious vessels in 13-05N 043-08E at 090815Z jan

Red Sea · HYDROPAC 96/17

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2017-01-25 21:29Z

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) · IMBPC 100150Z JAN 17.. Issued 2017-01-10 02:03Z. 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
Red Sea. The parsed report position is 13.083, 43.133. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued
2017-01-10 02:03Z
status
Archived notice
authority
IMBPC 100150Z JAN 17.
issued by
IMB PIRACY REPORTING CENTER
sea
Red Sea
position
13.083, 43.133
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

RED SEA.
PIRACY.
DNC 10.
M/V REPORTS APPROACH BY FOUR SUSPICIOUS VESSELS
IN 13-05N 043-08E AT 090815Z JAN. VESSELS ARE
ADVISED TO KEEP CLEAR OF THIS POSITION AND TO
EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION.

Reading this warning

Piracy and armed robbery
Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports

99 within 180 nm since 2002 · 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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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 2026-10-02 01:25Z; 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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