Observed arrival · 2026-10-01
Western Indian Ocean Piracy Observatory
A maritime observatory tracking verified piracy incidents, crew and vessel status, response mechanisms, and regional risk outlooks, with current coverage focused on Somalia and the Gulf of Aden.
- For
- Maritime operators, researchers, and policy teams
- Worth noticing
- Incident notes preserve unresolved disagreements, including casualty timing, revised arrest counts, and differing JMIC and MSCIO geographic assessments.
Field notes
The scenario explorer offers 24-hour, 72-hour, and seven-day horizons, alongside assumptions for coastal skiffs, mixed reach, and mothership operations. The page describes an hourly source watch and a 12-hour evidence review, and lists 27 landmark and current cases plus eight response mechanisms. Individual accounts retain unresolved details: the HONOUR 25 notes, for example, describe conflicting casualty sequences and incomplete crew-return information.
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