The Hydrographer of Pakistan issued NAVAREA IX 425/26 at 021500 UTC on 2 November for the Strait of Hormuz, charts BA 2851, 2888, 3172 and 3409 and Oman charts OM100, OM302, OM509 and OM1219. The official text states that tug boat Selat Storm is reported involved in a security incident and sunk in 26-22.55N 056-20.47E, approximately 0.6 nautical miles west of Jazirat Um Al Ghanam, and cautions mariners. That is the working primary. It is a named wreck product. It is not a new 2 November UKMTO Attack PDF, not a rewrite of Sunday night’s dedicated Warning 191-26 Mayday-relay Attack, and not an International Maritime Organization board increment past 123.
Pakistan’s Monday in-force table now carries 425/26 as STRAIT OF HORMUZ / TUG BOAT SUNK IN SECURITY INCIDENT, issued 021500 UTC. It does not print a wreck buoy, a light, a keep-clear radius, a least depth, a cargo, a bunker figure, a pollution line, a crew count, a flag, an IMO number, an attacker or a sinking clock. This afternoon’s dedicated 424/26 piece on this desk, published about 11:36 UTC, still told operators that NAVAREA IX ended at 424/26 and that no 425/26 had been retrieved. 425/26 is now the dedicated file on that naming. Masters who brief Monday night as a second Quba, as 191-26 named at last, as 193-26’s Lima hole converted into a wreck, or as Update 111 will have merged four other series into a new Um Al Ghanam plot.
What the warning actually printed
The hydrographic text is short. DTG 021500 UTC NOV 2026. NAVAREA IX 425/26. STRAIT OF HORMUZ. Charts BA 2851, 2888, 3172, 3409 and Oman OM100, OM302, OM509 and OM1219. TUG BOAT (SELAT STORM) REPORTED INVOLVED IN A SECURITY INCIDENT AND SUNK IN 26-22.55N 056-20.47E APPROXIMATELY 0.6NM WEST JAZIRAT UM AL GHANAM. MARINERS CAUTIONED. That is the product. Stay with that wording. The coordinator printed neither a wreck buoy, a light, a sinking clock, a cargo, a bunker figure, a pollution line, a crew revision, a keep-clear radius, a flag, an IMO number, nor an attacker. Do not invent a five-cable or one-nautical-mile circle around 26-22.55N 056-20.47E. 425/26 does not print one. Do not invent an IMO number. The notice prints SELAT STORM. It does not print an IMO. Do not invent a projectile, a Mayday, a hole, or a 1509 UTC clock. Those sentences sit on other products. They do not sit on 425/26.
The type line on the NAVAREA is tug boat, and the name line is SELAT STORM. That is the first briefing fact. Sunday night’s dedicated 191-26 PDF printed “another vessel,” not a name and not a type. Monday night’s dedicated 193-26 PDF printed “vessel,” not tug and not a name. 425/26 is the first official hydrographic instrument on this Monday clock that types the casualty as a tug boat and names it. Do not convert Monday’s wreck notice into a tanker finding. Do not put Quba, RITI, Louise 1, Ghana Prosperity, Cape Dao or 193-26’s unnamed Lima vessel onto this plot because those names are easier to brief than Selat Storm. Do not put Sunday night’s unnamed Hormuz Mayday onto this plot because both files sit in the Strait of Hormuz.
The geometry is the second briefing fact. 26-22.55N 056-20.47E sits approximately 0.6 nautical miles west of Jazirat Um Al Ghanam on the Musandam side of the Strait of Hormuz, on BA 2851 / 2888 / 3172 / 3409 and OM100 / OM302 / OM509 / OM1219. That is not 26-19.95N 056-16.82E, Friday morning’s dedicated Quba wreck 3.5 nautical miles west of the same island. That is not 26-24.07N 056-24.72E, Friday night’s dedicated RITI fire-and-anchor 1 nautical mile northwest of Ra’s Tahir. That is not 9 nautical miles northeast of Lima, Monday night’s dedicated 193-26 Attack. One named tug. One plotted wreck. Not a proof that 191-26 or 193-26 was Selat Storm. Do not move Cape Dao’s 15-nautical-mile northeast-of-Khasab IMO row onto this Monday plot because both files sit off Musandam. Cape Dao remains IMO 9219020, 23 September, 15 nautical miles northeast of Khasab, sunk on the IMO board, wreck later plotted 35 nautical miles east of Sohar on dedicated 403/26 and later cancelled by 410/26. Selat Storm is a different name, a different type line and a different date.
Sunk and mariners cautioned is the third briefing fact. 425/26 does not say the ship is under way, continuing to the next port of call, NUC, under tow, at anchor, or on fire. It does not say the crew are onboard or off the ship. It does not say the wreck is marked. A DPA who briefs Monday night as “Selat Storm continuing, hole on the starboard side, all well” has borrowed 193-26’s safe-and-holed line and has dropped the sunk line that is the whole of this NAVAREA. A DPA who briefs Monday night as a completed salvage because the tug is named has over-read a mariners-cautioned wreck that does not print a buoy, a least depth or a pollution line.
Industry colour of the same hull, held separately: Seatrade Maritime, citing Vanguard Tech, reported that Panama-flagged tug Selat Storm was struck by an unidentified projectile in the Strait of Hormuz at around 15:00 UTC on 1 November, that another merchant vessel relayed a Mayday from the tug, and that the tug was reported to be partially sinking. Pole Star Global, as carried by Seatrade, adds beneficial owner Seabulk International and operator Selat Marine Services. Clearwater Dynamics issued an UPDATE on CW Alert 001-(Nov 26) against Sunday’s 1509 UTC Mayday clock, stating that reports from multiple open sources indicate the vessel involved is Panama-flagged tug/supply vessel SELAT STORM, IMO 9266657. Vesseltracker colour adds MMSI 371432000, call sign HP5492, length about 58 metres, last AIS 1 November, and a departure from Al Hamriyah. Those extras are not on the NAVAREA. 425/26 printed tug boat Selat Storm, sunk, 26-22.55N 056-20.47E. It printed no flag, no IMO, no Mayday, no projectile, no 1509 UTC clock, no Seabulk line and no Al Hamriyah line. Treat the Vanguard / Seatrade / Clearwater / Vesseltracker tape as industry colour. Do not collapse it onto 425/26 as a NAVAREA naming of flag, IMO, weapon or clock. Do not collapse it onto 191-26 as a UKMTO PDF naming.
Same-board wrap, held separately: NAVAREA IX 426/26, 021720 UTC 2 November, ARABIAN SEA PAKISTAN, charts PAK 22, 23, 33, 57 (INT 751), BA 38, 39 and 707. Live weapon firing scheduled on 3 November 2026 between 0300 and 0700 UTC in a five-corner box at 25-54.71N 065-52.02E, 25-17.20N 065-51.76E, 25-06.83N 066-42.85E, 25-05.59N 067-10.18E and 25-54.71N 067-11.12E. Mariners cautioned. Cancel 030800 UTC 3 November. 426/26 is a different polygon, a different time window and a one-day firing from this afternoon’s dedicated 424/26, which remains live weapon firing 0300–0600 UTC on 3 and 4 November inside four corners around 25-20.77N 066-06.85E, cancel 040700 UTC 4 November. 414/26 remains the dedicated November Pakistan firing series. 426/26 is wrap on tonight’s 425/26 — unused as a third Pakistan firing piece. Do not collapse 426/26 onto 424/26 as a fifth box or a 3–4 November rewrite.
What this is not
This is not a rewrite of 191-26, and it is not a UKMTO Attack PDF. Sunday night’s dedicated Warning 191-26 remains an unnamed Attack, 1509 UTC 1 November, source Merchant Vessel, filename 20261101-ukmto_warning_191_26.pdf: Master of a merchant vessel relayed a VHF Channel 16 Mayday stating that another vessel had been struck by an unknown projectile; location footer Strait of Hormuz; no hull, no type beyond another vessel, no crew line, no environmental line, no sunk line, no lat/long. 191-26 prints Mayday and unknown projectile. 425/26 prints Selat Storm, tug boat, sunk and a plot. Do not convert Selat Storm onto 191-26 as a UKMTO naming. Do not convert 191-26’s withheld status onto 425/26’s sunk line. Official MSCIO Alert 164/26 remains wrap on dedicated 191-26. Clearwater’s open-source UPDATE that names SELAT STORM against the 1509 UTC clock is industry colour, not a 191-26 PDF revision and not this NAVAREA.
This is not a rewrite of 193-26, and it is not a Lima hole. Monday night’s dedicated Warning 193-26 remains an unnamed vessel Attack, 2020 UTC 1 November, source Master, filename 20261102-ukmto_warning_193.pdf: vessel struck by an unknown projectile causing a hole on the starboard side, 9 nautical miles northeast of Lima, Oman; vessel and crew safe; no environmental impact reported. 193-26 prints safe and a hole. 425/26 prints sunk. Nine nautical miles northeast of Lima is the Gulf of Oman face. 0.6 nautical miles west of Um Al Ghanam is the Strait face. An unnamed vessel that is safe is not tug boat Selat Storm on the bottom. Do not merge Monday night’s Lima Attack onto Monday’s Hormuz wreck because both files sat on the 2 November board. Official MSCIO Alert 166/26 remains wrap on dedicated 193-26.
This is not a rewrite of 192-26, and it is not a Khafji tanker. This morning’s dedicated Warning 192-26 remains an unnamed tanker Attack, 2347 UTC 1 November, two unknown projectiles on the port side, 72 nautical miles east of Ras Al Khafji, Saudi Arabia; all crew accounted for; no reported environmental impact at this time. Seventy-two nautical miles east of Khafji is northern Arabian Gulf water. 0.6 nautical miles west of Um Al Ghanam is Hormuz water. A tanker is not a tug boat. Official MSCIO Alert 165/26 remains wrap on dedicated 192-26 — unused as a second Khafji piece.
This is not a rewrite of 417/26, and it is not a second Quba. Friday morning’s dedicated NAVAREA IX 417/26 remains the working wreck instrument on dhow MSV Quba, MNV 2183, reported sunk in 26-19.95N 056-16.82E, about 3.5 nautical miles west of Jazirat Um Al Ghanam. A sunk dhow is not a sunk tug. 26-19.95N 056-16.82E is not 26-22.55N 056-20.47E. About 3.5 nautical miles west of the island is not 0.6 nautical miles west of the island. Do not put Quba on the Selat Storm plot. Do not put Selat Storm on the Quba plot. Friday night’s dedicated 420/26 remains oil tanker RITI, fire onboard, anchored in 26-24.07N 056-24.72E, about 1 nautical mile northwest of Ra’s Tahir. An anchored oil tanker is not a sunk tug. Do not put RITI on this wreck.
This is not Update 110, and it is not an IMO 124-count. Sunday afternoon’s dedicated Update 110, ICOD 011300 UTC 1 November, JMIC# 001 26, remains the last numbered public periodic note, with Hormuz SEVERE, the Arabian Gulf SUBSTANTIAL, 167 incidents since 1 March. 425/26 at 021500 UTC sits after that cut-off. It is not on that note. This afternoon’s dedicated IMO highlighted-incidents board remains 123 confirmed / 24 seafarer fatalities as at 2 November, with Louise 1 still the newest named row. IMO has not named Selat Storm, 191-26, 192-26, 193-26, RITI, Al Mayeda, Arzanah, AZINI or Quba. 425/26 does not fill those slots and does not print an IMO number. Wednesday afternoon’s dedicated JMIC Advisory Note 016-26 remains the blockade visit-and-search document pack. This afternoon’s dedicated 424/26 remains the 3–4 November Pakistan firing box. 426/26 is wrap. 423/26 remains the 310300 UTC in-force list. 416/26 remains wrap on 184-26 through 032359 UTC 3 November. Thursday’s dedicated Contship Jet and Khoryv Black Sea files, Saturday’s dedicated NAVWARN 775/26, 776/26 and 777/26, and this morning’s dedicated NAVWARN 779/26 remain Kaliakra, Shabla, Burgas and Galata products. They do not belong on an Um Al Ghanam wreck.
Operational implications
For a master already in the Strait of Hormuz, shaping an outbound or inbound transit past Musandam, or working Khasab, Bukha, Limah, Lima, Fujairah or Khor Fakkan tonight, Monday is a named, positioned tug wreck 0.6 nautical miles west of Jazirat Um Al Ghanam before it is a war-risk rewrite. Update 110 remains the last numbered JMIC note and still prints Hormuz SEVERE. 016-26 remains the working blockade document pack: continuous VHF 16, follow US forces, be prepared to alter, stop or come dead in the water, and have the six signed-or-stamped PDFs ready. 425/26 adds a plotted obstruction on BA 2851 / 2888 / 3172 / 3409 and OM100 / OM302 / OM509 / OM1219 where Friday morning’s 417/26 file still had a dhow 3.5 nautical miles west of the same island and where Sunday night’s 191-26 file still had an unnamed Mayday and no lat/long. A passage plan that only carried the Quba wreck, or that treated Musandam as clear because 410/26 cancelled the Pride / Cape Dao / Ghana Prosperity cautions, has not budgeted 26-22.55N 056-20.47E.
Mariners cautioned is the printed instruction, not a harbour closure and not a buoyed wreck. 425/26 does not close Khasab, Bukha, Limah, Lima, Fujairah, Khor Fakkan or the Strait of Hormuz. It does not mark the tug. It does not give a least depth. Night transits, restricted-visibility transits and any traffic that has been hugging the Omani coast to stay off the Iranian-controlled northern Hormuz route now carry a named tug on the bottom, 0.6 nautical miles west of Um Al Ghanam, on top of Quba 3.5 nautical miles west of the same island and RITI at anchor 1 nautical mile northwest of Ra’s Tahir. Plot the position, add sea-room beyond a default CPA, and keep a lookout for unlit wreckage, unlit boats and other traffic standing off the same plot. Do not invent a five-cable circle because Khoryv’s dedicated 766/26 prints one in the Black Sea. That radius is not this notice. Do not invent a 2-nautical-mile berth because Sunday morning’s dedicated ARN 162/2026 printed one in the Romanian exclusive economic zone. That radius is not this notice either.
A pollution watch and a crew watch remain open because the instrument is silent. 425/26 prints security incident, sunk and mariners cautioned. It does not print a hydrocarbon line, a boom, a cargo, a bunker figure or a bunker type. It does not print a crew count. Industry colour, held separately, adds a projectile, a Mayday, a partial sinking and still does not print a spill, a head-count or a fire-out line. That is not a clean bill. A tug that was hit and then sat on the bottom 0.6 nautical miles west of Um Al Ghanam can leave fuel, can still be a boarding or salvage problem, and can still be an unlit obstruction in the southern corridor. Charterers and P&I will ask for 26-22.55N 056-20.47E, the 0.6-nautical-mile west-of-Um-Al-Ghanam offset, the Selat Storm naming, and the still-open IMO board that has not taken this hull. They will not be answered by Sunday night’s unnamed 191-26 Attack alone, or by Monday night’s unnamed 193-26 hole. Flag, class and wreck-removal or salvage work remain with whoever holds the tug. None of those names is on 425/26.
For a DPA and an operator with any merchant hull still using the southern Hormuz corridor, the reporting split is the operational content. Sightings of the wreck, wreckage, persons in the water or pollution go to the NAVAREA / coastal-warning system, to UKMTO if the sighting is being treated as a live Attack, and to the company security officer. NAVCENT NCAGS remains the 016-26 blockade mailbox. MSCIO remains the EU ATALANTA registration and alert desk. Registering with one mailbox is not a substitute for the others. 425/26 does not order an armed team, a daylight-only transit, or a halt to visit-and-search compliance. It also does not authorise a master to treat a named sunk tug as a confirmed 191-26 projectile Attack, a confirmed 193-26 Lima hole, or a Cape Dao rewrite. Log the NAVAREA number, the 021500 UTC clock, the name SELAT STORM, the tug-boat type, the plot 26-22.55N 056-20.47E, the 0.6-nautical-mile west-of-Jazirat-Um-Al-Ghanam offset, the sunk line, the security-incident line, and the mariners-cautioned line. Do not log an IMO number, a keep-clear radius, a Panama flag, a Seabulk owner, a 1509 UTC Mayday, a projectile, or an attacker that the notice does not print. Hold those Vanguard / Seatrade / Clearwater extras as colour beside the log, not as the NAVAREA tape.
Keep the dedicated files on their own lines. 193-26 remains Monday night’s unnamed vessel Attack 9 nautical miles northeast of Lima, hole on the starboard side, vessel and crew safe. 192-26 remains this morning’s unnamed tanker Attack 72 nautical miles east of Ras Al Khafji. 191-26 remains Sunday night’s unnamed Channel 16 Mayday-relay Attack inside the Strait of Hormuz. 417/26 remains Friday morning’s dedicated MSV Quba wreck. 420/26 remains Friday night’s dedicated RITI fire-and-anchor. 189-26 remains Saturday morning’s unnamed time-late Hormuz Attack; Arzanah on Update 110 is wrap. 188-26 remains Friday night’s unnamed vessel Attack 40 nautical miles south of Lavan Island; Al Mayeda on Sunday’s Nakilat statement and on Update 110 is wrap. 187-26 remains Friday morning’s unnamed tanker Attack 25 nautical miles northeast of Khasab; Louise 1 on Update 110 and on this afternoon’s 123-count is wrap. 186-26 remains the unused 1600 UTC unknown-projectile Attack. 185-26 remains Thursday’s 9-nautical-mile north-of-Khasab fire sighting. 184-26 / 416/26 remains the Gulf of Aden PAG keep-clear through 3 November. 182-26 remains the 23 October outbound disablement, Ghana Prosperity on the IMO 123-count as wrap. Cape Dao remains 403/26 / the 23 September IMO row. Pride remains the 13 October container wreck. Update 110 remains the last periodic threat note, Hormuz still SEVERE. This afternoon’s dedicated IMO board remains 123 / 24 as at 2 November. 016-26 remains Wednesday afternoon’s blockade document pack. 424/26 remains this afternoon’s dedicated 3–4 November Pakistan firing box. 426/26 remains wrap. Thursday’s 768/26 and 766/26 remain the Kaliakra and Shabla Black Sea files. Do not recast 2 November night as a 191-26 naming, as a 193-26 wreck conversion, as Update 111, as an IMO 124-count, or as a Hormuz closure.
What Operators Should Note
- Log 425/26 as a named tug wreck, not as a UKMTO Attack PDF and not as a second Quba. NAVAREA IX 425/26, 021500 UTC 2 November. STRAIT OF HORMUZ. Charts BA 2851, 2888, 3172, 3409 and Oman OM100, OM302, OM509, OM1219. Tug boat Selat Storm reported involved in a security incident and sunk in 26-22.55N 056-20.47E, approximately 0.6 nautical miles west of Jazirat Um Al Ghanam. Mariners cautioned. The coordinator printed neither wreck buoy, keep-clear radius, least depth, pollution, crew count, flag, IMO number, attacker, projectile, Mayday nor a sinking clock. This is not 191-26, not 193-26, not 192-26, not 417/26, not 420/26, and not Update 110.
- Hold the plot and the status line. 26-22.55N 056-20.47E, about 0.6 nautical miles west of Jazirat Um Al Ghanam. 425/26 is sunk and mariners cautioned, not continuing, not at anchor, not a five-cable circle and not a buoyed wreck. Night and restricted-visibility transits on BA 2851 / 2888 / 3172 / 3409 and OM100 / OM302 / OM509 / OM1219 now carry a named obstruction 0.6 nautical miles west of the island where 417/26 still has a dhow 3.5 nautical miles west of the same island. Khasab, Fujairah, Khor Fakkan and the Strait are not closed by this notice.
- Hold Vanguard / Seatrade / Clearwater / Vesseltracker colour separately. Seatrade, citing Vanguard Tech, adds Panama-flagged, unidentified projectile, about 15:00 UTC 1 November, Mayday relayed, partially sinking, Seabulk International / Selat Marine Services. Clearwater’s UPDATE on the 1509 UTC Mayday clock adds IMO 9266657. Vesseltracker adds MMSI 371432000, HP5492, about 58 metres and an Al Hamriyah sailing. None of those extras sit on 425/26. Do not promote Panama, IMO 9266657, Seabulk, 1509 UTC or Mayday to a NAVAREA fact. Do not promote them onto 191-26 as a UKMTO PDF naming.
- Do not collapse 191-26, 193-26, Quba or RITI onto this plot. 191-26 remains an unnamed Channel 16 Mayday-relay Attack inside the Strait of Hormuz, 1509 UTC, no hull, no sunk line. 193-26 remains an unnamed vessel Attack 9 nautical miles northeast of Lima, hole on the starboard side, vessel and crew safe. 417/26 remains the dedicated MSV Quba sunk file at 26-19.95N 056-16.82E. 420/26 remains the dedicated RITI fire-and-anchor at 26-24.07N 056-24.72E. Selat Storm is this NAVAREA’s name. Those other files are not this tug unless a later UKMTO PDF or flag note prints Selat Storm against their clocks.
- Leave crew, pollution, projectile and attacker off this notice. 425/26 does not reprint a crew-evacuated line, a fatality line, a spill, a cargo, a mine or a weapon. Industry colour adds a projectile, a Mayday and a partial sinking and still does not print a spill or a head-count. Do not close a SAR file, a bunker survey or an attribution from a mariners-cautioned wreck. Watch a later NAVAREA that marks a buoy, prints a least depth, prints pollution or moves the plot; a UKMTO PDF that names Selat Storm; a flag or class note; a JMIC Update 111; or an IMO-board row.
- Do not move the official boards from this notice, and do not collapse 426/26 onto 424/26. IMO remains 123 confirmed / 24 dead as at 2 November, Louise 1 still the newest named row. Update 110 ICOD remains 011300 UTC 1 November, Hormuz SEVERE, 167 incidents since 1 March. 016-26 remains the blockade document pack. 424/26 remains this afternoon’s dedicated 3–4 November Pakistan firing box. 426/26, 021720 UTC, live weapon firing 0300–0700 UTC on 3 November only, five corners around 25-54.71N 065-52.02E, cancel 030800 UTC 3 November, is wrap — unused as a second Pakistan firing piece. 416/26 remains the Aden PAG wrap through 3 November. Watch the in-force list, not a headline that Monday night closed Musandam.
Regulas Shipping will keep lining NAVAREA IX 425/26 against Sunday night’s dedicated 191-26 Hormuz Mayday and against Monday night’s dedicated 193-26 Lima Attack so operators can treat Monday’s tape as a named tug on the bottom 0.6 nautical miles west of Jazirat Um Al Ghanam, not as a 191-26 naming, a Lima-hole conversion, or a closed survey.
