The International Maritime Organization\u2019s highlighted-incidents board, as at 5 November, now prints 129 confirmed incidents in the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Middle East, with 24 confirmed seafarer fatalities. Wednesday morning\u2019s dedicated board piece on this desk sat at 128 as at 3 November, with Largo Atom\u2019s 1 November row 72 nautical miles east of Ras Al Khafji, Selat Storm\u2019s 1 November Strait of Hormuz row and Arzanah\u2019s 28 October Strait of Hormuz row as the newest named lines. The fatality line has not moved. What moved is the as-at date by two days, the count by one, and one new named row at the top of the table. IMO now prints VELOS SAPPHIRE, IMO 9321201, dated 4 November, 50 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, damaged, no pollution, one seafarer missing. Thursday night is the first official IMO print of that hull.<\/p>\n
The count is an IMO product. It is not a UKMTO warning, not a rewrite of Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated Warning 196-26, and not a rewrite of Wednesday morning\u2019s dedicated 128-count, Monday morning\u2019s dedicated Warning 192-26, Sunday night\u2019s dedicated 425\/26, Tuesday night\u2019s dedicated Warning 194-26 or 195-26, or Sunday night\u2019s dedicated Update 110. Tonight\u2019s companion Update 111, ICOD 051300 UTC 5 November, still withholds 196-26 as Name withheld UFN. That is a different counter from IMO\u2019s 129. Masters who brief Thursday night as Update 111 finally printing Velos Sapphire, as UKMTO finally printing that hull on the original PDF, as a completed 4 November tape, or as a Hormuz reopen will have misread the instrument.<\/p>\n
Wednesday morning\u2019s English page was 128 confirmed incidents, 24 dead, as at 3 November, with LARGO ATOM, SELAT STORM and ARZANAH as the operational namings of that snapshot and with AL MAYEDA, RITI, LOUISE 1, GHANA PROSPERITY, LEONORA KOSAN, SOYIA, CHLOE (MIVERVA V), AL DASMA, JIF BARRACUDA, LOYALTY, ST3, GFS PRIDE, GFS GISELLE, AL SAADIYAT, DP WORLD KAVERI, KITION M, EVER VICT, AL MAQAM, ANGOLA PROSPERITY and PETRO DOLPHIN already on the sheet. Thursday night\u2019s English page is 129 as at 5 November. The increment is one confirmed incident. One new named row sits at the top of the table, above Wednesday\u2019s Largo Atom, Selat Storm and Arzanah lines. That arithmetic is a single-row move. Do not invent a second new name. Do not treat the +1 as a silent conversion of Tuesday night\u2019s dedicated 194-26, Tuesday night\u2019s dedicated 195-26, Monday night\u2019s dedicated 193-26, Sunday night\u2019s dedicated 191-26, Tuesday afternoon\u2019s dedicated Al Jusufi statements, AZINI or Quba. Those products remain unnamed on this board as new Thursday rows. Do not treat the +1 as a Contship Jet conversion. That hull does not belong on this Middle East table as a new Thursday row. One increment from the earlier 114-to-119 jump is still unnamed on this public sheet.<\/p>\n
The new row is VELOS SAPPHIRE, IMO 9321201, 4 November, 50NM north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, damaged, no pollution, one seafarer missing. Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated Warning 196-26 remains an unnamed tanker Attack, 2320 UTC 4 November, source Verified, location footer Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar: UKMTO has received a report of an incident 50 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal; a tanker has been struck by two unidentified projectiles; the status of the crew, a damage assessment and the environmental impact are unconfirmed at present. Official MSCIO alerts index showed no numbered wrap against that 2320 UTC Qatar clock. Tonight\u2019s companion Update 111 reprints 196-26 as Name withheld UFN, tanker, Attack, Arabian Gulf, crew \/ damage \/ environment unconfirmed as of ICOD 051300 UTC. IMO does not print 196-26, 2320 UTC, \u201ctwo unidentified projectiles,\u201d a Verified line, an unconfirmed crew line or an attacker. It prints Velos Sapphire, 9321201, damaged, no pollution, one seafarer missing, 50 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, on a 4 November date. That is a tighter hull finding than the PDF, and it matches the PDF\u2019s 50-nautical-mile north-of-Madinat-ash-Shamal offset. It is also a different crew line. The PDF printed unconfirmed. Update 111 printed unconfirmed as of ICOD. IMO printed one seafarer missing. The fatality total is still 24. Missing is not a confirmed fatality on this sheet. It is not a completed class survey. It is not a UKMTO PDF revision. It is not an Update 111 naming.<\/p>\n
Hold the nearby Qatar plot. ACERS remains 7 October, IMO 9301902, 51NM north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, damaged, no pollution, on this same table. One nautical mile and 28 days separate those two offsets. Do not promote ACERS onto the new Velos Sapphire row. Do not promote a 7 October clock, a Damaged\/no-pollution line from ACERS, or IMO 9301902 onto Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated 196-26. Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated file already held that split. Thursday night\u2019s IMO print does not collapse it.<\/p>\n
Hold the clocks. UKMTO dates 196-26 to 4 November 2320 UTC. IMO dates the new Velos Sapphire row to 4 November without a time. Update 111, ICOD 051300 UTC 5 November, reprints 196-26 as unnamed. Those are separate official instruments, not one collapsed Attack. Do not invent which UKMTO number is the 4 November Velos Sapphire row. The 196-26 PDF has not been revised. Do not collapse Largo Atom, Selat Storm, Arzanah, Al Mayeda, RITI and Louise 1 into one late-October-to-early-November Attack because all six now sit near the top of the sheet. Largo Atom, Selat Storm and Arzanah remain Wednesday morning\u2019s dedicated 128-count prints. Al Mayeda and RITI remain Tuesday morning\u2019s dedicated 125-count prints. Louise 1 remains Monday afternoon\u2019s dedicated 123-count print.<\/p>\n
The rest of Wednesday\u2019s sheet is still there. LARGO ATOM remains 1 November, IMO 1034747, 72NM East of Ras Al Khafji, Saudi Arabia, damaged, no pollution. SELAT STORM remains 1 November, IMO 9266657, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, pollution unknown. ARZANAH remains 28 October, IMO 9928023, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution. AL MAYEDA remains 30 October, IMO 9397298, 40NM South of Lavan Island, Iran, damaged, no pollution. RITI remains 29 October, IMO 9249075, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution. LOUISE 1 remains 29 October, IMO 9290323, 25NM Northeast of Khasab, Oman, damaged, no pollution. GHANA PROSPERITY remains 23 October, IMO 9732541, Strait of Hormuz, damaged, no pollution, with the 3 October Strait row for the same IMO number still lower on the board. LEONORA KOSAN remains 23 October, IMO 9390953, 6 NM northeast of Limah, damaged, no pollution. SOYIA remains 20 October, IMO 9263916, 30 NM southeast of Al Faw, damaged, no pollution. CHLOE (MIVERVA V) remains 19 October, IMO 9315367, 121 NM from the coast of Oman, damaged, no pollution. AL DASMA remains 20 October, IMO 9653446, Strait of Hormuz, second attack, damaged, no pollution, with the 7 September first-attack row still on the board. JIF BARRACUDA remains 18 October, IMO 9345506, northeast of Khor Fakkan, damaged, no pollution, one seafarer injured. GFS PRIDE remains sunk, no pollution. PETRO DOLPHIN remains two seafarers missing at Sohar Anchorage. GEM NO. 2 remains 9 October, IMO 9735373, 13 NM west of Al Jazeera, damaged. Cameroon Prosperity is still printed with the eight-digit IMO typo 93151598; the working seven-digit number on earlier dedicated files is 9315159. CAPE DAO remains 23 September, IMO 9219020, 15 NM northeast of Khasab, sunk, no pollution, one seafarer fatality. The fatality total is still 24. None of those rows is the 129-count move. The move is the one-incident increment, the as-at date shift to 5 November, and the first Velos Sapphire print at the top.<\/p>\n
Warning 196-26 remains an unnamed PDF. The working primary on that dedicated Thursday-morning file is still: ATTACK, 4 November 2026, 2320 UTC, source Verified, tanker struck by two unidentified projectiles, 50 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, status of the crew, damage assessment and environmental impact unconfirmed at present, location footer Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, filename Tonight\u2019s companion Update 111, retrieved from Industry colour of the same 4 November clock, held separately: open-register particulars only, Marshall Islands, oil products tanker, about 228 m, 40,953 gt \/ 74,998 dwt, MMSI 538008858, call sign V7A2841. Those extras are not an IMO flag, cargo or owner print. IMO prints Velos Sapphire, 9321201, damaged, no pollution, one seafarer missing. It does not print a flag, a cargo grade, a deadweight or an owner. Do not promote a company-fleet colour line onto this row. Distinct from dedicated ACERS on this same table, 7 October, IMO 9301902, 51NM north of Madinat ash Shamal. Distinct from dedicated LARGO ATOM, 1 November, 72NM east of Ras Al Khafji. Distinct from dedicated 195-26, Tuesday night\u2019s unnamed tanker engine-room Attack, 1900 UTC 3 November, 14 nautical miles northeast of Lima. Do not fold Velos Sapphire onto that Lima clock.<\/p>\n The missing-seafarer line is the briefing fact. 196-26 printed unconfirmed. Update 111 printed unconfirmed as of ICOD. IMO printed one seafarer missing. The fatality total is still 24. PETRO DOLPHIN remains two seafarers missing at Sohar Anchorage. EL GAIA remains two seafarers missing. MINOAN PIONEER remains one seafarer missing. Those earlier missing lines did not move the fatality count when they first printed, and this one does not move it tonight. A war-risk file that treats IMO\u2019s \u201cone seafarer missing\u201d as a 25th confirmed fatality has over-read the table. A master\u2019s pack that treats 196-26\u2019s unconfirmed crew line as now closed because IMO said missing has collapsed two instruments.<\/p>\n This is not Warning 196-26. Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated UKMTO Attack remains an unnamed Verified report, 2320 UTC 4 November, tanker, two unidentified projectiles, 50 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal, crew, damage and environment unconfirmed. IMO has taken the offset and the date. It has not revised the PDF. Tonight\u2019s companion Update 111 still withholds the hull.<\/p>\n This is not Warning 195-26. Tuesday night\u2019s dedicated UKMTO Attack is a CSO report of a tanker 14 nautical miles northeast of Lima, Oman, struck by two unknown projectiles into the engine room at 1900 UTC 3 November, no casualties or environmental impact reported at this time. IMO has not taken that clock. This is not Warning 194-26. Tuesday night\u2019s dedicated UKMTO Attack is a Verified report, 1105 UTC 2 November, of an Indian-crewed dhow attacked whilst sailing outbound through the Strait of Hormuz, surviving crew rescued, vessel status unknown. IMO has not taken that clock and has not printed Al Jusufi. Tuesday afternoon\u2019s dedicated Indian minister \/ MEA \/ DMA Al Jusufi file remains wrap on 194-26, not a 194-26 hull and not an IMO row. Tonight\u2019s companion Update 111 is the first numbered JMIC print of MSV Al Jusufi against 194-26; that is a JMIC naming, not this board.<\/p>\n This is not Warning 193-26. Monday night\u2019s dedicated UKMTO Attack is a Master report of a vessel 9 nautical miles northeast of Lima, Oman, struck by an unknown projectile causing a hole on the starboard side at 2020 UTC 1 November, vessel and crew safe. Official MSCIO Alert 166\/26 remains wrap on dedicated 193-26. This is not Warning 191-26. Sunday night\u2019s dedicated Strait of Hormuz Mayday-relay Attack remains unnamed on the PDF. Official MSCIO Alert 164\/26 remains wrap on that file. Tonight\u2019s companion Update 111 names Selat Storm against 191-26 and 425\/26; that is a JMIC naming, not a new IMO row. Selat Storm remains Wednesday morning\u2019s dedicated 128-count print on this sheet.<\/p>\n This is not a rewrite of Wednesday morning\u2019s dedicated 128-count. Largo Atom, Selat Storm and Arzanah remain Wednesday\u2019s dedicated prints. This is not a rewrite of Tuesday morning\u2019s dedicated 125-count. Al Mayeda and RITI remain Tuesday\u2019s dedicated prints. This is not a rewrite of Monday afternoon\u2019s dedicated 123-count. Louise 1 remains Monday\u2019s dedicated print. This is not 417\/26. Friday morning\u2019s dedicated MSV Quba wreck remains 26-19.95N 056-16.82E. This is not Sunday morning\u2019s dedicated MSCIO Alert 161\/26 AZINI hijack. This is not Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated NAVWARN 1336\/26, and it is not Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated 797\/26 MENTOR or 790\/26 Maslen Nos files. Those Black Sea and Aegean instruments do not belong on this Middle East table.<\/p>\n This is not a rewrite of tonight\u2019s companion Update 111. Update 111 remains the numbered public periodic note, ICOD 051300 UTC 5 November, 172 incidents since 1 March. Dedicated 191-26 through 196-26 sit on that table. 196-26 remains Name withheld UFN on that note. This is not a 196-26 PDF revision. This is not an ACERS rewrite. This is not a fatality-count move. This is not a Hormuz reopen. Independent tracking colour and NCAGS facilitated-transit colour remain on dedicated Update 110 and on tonight\u2019s companion Update 111; Thursday night\u2019s board does not reprint them.<\/p>\n For CSOs, Thursday night is the first IMO sheet that prints Velos Sapphire. Charterers, P&I and war-risk underwriters who have been holding 196-26 as an unnamed Qatar projectile Attack, Update 111 as the regional note that still withholds that hull, and ACERS as the 7 October 51-nautical-mile north-of-Madinat-ash-Shamal row can now point to a 4 November IMO row on IMO 9321201. They still cannot point to a UKMTO PDF that prints that name. They still cannot point to an Update 111 naming. The board\u2019s pollution line on Velos Sapphire is \u201cno pollution.\u201d That is tighter than 196-26\u2019s unconfirmed environmental line and tighter than Update 111\u2019s unconfirmed-as-of-ICOD line. The board\u2019s crew line is \u201cone seafarer missing.\u201d That is tighter than both of those unconfirmed crew lines and is not a 25th confirmed fatality. IMO printed neither a refuge port, a return-to-passage, a wreck buoy, a NAVAREA number, a fire, a projectile method nor an attacker against the new row. A named tanker 50 nautical miles north of Madinat ash Shamal that now carries an IMO confirmed-incident date and a missing-seafarer tag is still a survey, next-port, citadel, SAR and war-risk problem. \u201cDamaged, no pollution\u201d is not a completed class note. \u201cOne seafarer missing\u201d is not a closed fatality file.<\/p>\n The 129-count is also a reminder of what IMO has not yet taken. Warning 195-26 remains Tuesday night\u2019s dedicated unnamed Lima engine-room Attack. Warning 194-26 remains Tuesday night\u2019s dedicated unnamed Indian-crewed dhow Attack; Al Jusufi on Tuesday afternoon\u2019s dedicated Indian statements and on tonight\u2019s companion Update 111 is wrap, not an IMO print. Warning 193-26 remains Monday night\u2019s dedicated unnamed Lima hole Attack. Warning 191-26 remains Sunday night\u2019s dedicated unnamed Hormuz Mayday-relay Attack; Selat Storm on Wednesday\u2019s 128-count and on tonight\u2019s companion Update 111 is wrap on those earlier files, not a new Thursday IMO row. Unused 186-26 remains an unnamed CSO Attack; RITI on 420\/26, on Update 110 and on Tuesday\u2019s 125-count is wrap on those earlier files, not a 186-26 PDF naming. AZINI remains Sunday morning\u2019s dedicated MSCIO hijack. Quba remains Friday morning\u2019s dedicated dhow wreck. One increment from the 114-to-119 jump is still unnamed. A master\u2019s pack that treats 129 as \u201cthe 4 November tape is now official\u201d will over-read the board. A pack that leaves the 4 November Velos Sapphire row off the IMO sheet because 196-26 was unnamed will under-read it.<\/p>\n Replace the Wednesday morning 128-count snapshot. Do not replace Update 111. ICOD remains 051300 UTC 5 November. Do not invent Update 112 because the IMO sheet moved one row and the as-at date after that cut-off. IMO\u2019s 129 is not JMIC\u2019s 172-incident tally on Update 111. Largo Atom, Selat Storm and Arzanah stay on the sheet as Wednesday morning\u2019s dedicated 128-count prints. Al Mayeda and RITI stay on the sheet as Tuesday morning\u2019s dedicated 125-count prints. Louise 1 stays on the sheet as Monday afternoon\u2019s dedicated 123-count print. Ghana Prosperity stays on the sheet as Saturday\u2019s dedicated 23 October print. The 3 October Ghana Prosperity row stays on the sheet as the first confirmed incident against that IMO number. 196-26 stays Thursday morning\u2019s dedicated unnamed Qatar Attack. 192-26 stays Monday morning\u2019s dedicated unnamed Ras Al Khafji Attack. 425\/26 stays Sunday night\u2019s dedicated Selat Storm wreck. Do not recast 5 November night as a 196-26 PDF naming, an Update 111 naming, a fatality-count move, a rewrite of Wednesday morning\u2019s 128-count, a rewrite of Thursday morning\u2019s 196-26, an ACERS conversion, or a Hormuz reopen.<\/p>\n Regulas Shipping will keep lining the IMO highlighted-incidents board against UKMTO numbered products, NAVAREA IX 425\/26 and JMIC Update 111 so operators can treat Thursday night\u2019s 129-count and the new 4 November Velos Sapphire print as an IMO instrument, not as a UKMTO naming or a Hormuz reopen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The International Maritime Organization\u2019s highlighted-incidents board, as at 5 November, now prints 129 confirmed incidents in the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Middle East, with 24 confirmed seafarer fatalities. 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UKMTO printed neither a ship name, an IMO number, a flag, a cargo, an attacker, a NUC or tow line, an anchorage, a missing-seafarer line nor a latitude\/longitude beyond the 50-nautical-mile north-of-Madinat-ash-Shamal offset. Thursday night\u2019s IMO row does not revise that PDF. A DPA who briefs Thursday night as \u201cUKMTO has now named 196-26\u201d has over-read a highlighted-incidents table that does not print a warning number.<\/p>\njmic_advisory_update_111_05-nov.pdf<\/code>, ICOD 051300 UTC 5 November, remains wrap on dedicated 196-26: Name withheld UFN, tanker, Attack, Arabian Gulf, two unidentified projectiles approx. 50 NM north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar, crew, damage assessment and environmental impact unconfirmed as of ICOD. Update 111 does not print Velos Sapphire. IMO\u2019s sheet is tighter on the hull, the IMO number and the missing-seafarer line and thinner on the method. It prints \u201c50NM north of Madinat ash Shamal, Qatar,\u201d \u201cdamaged,\u201d \u201cno pollution\u201d and \u201cone seafarer missing,\u201d not \u201ctwo unidentified projectiles,\u201d not \u201cVerified,\u201d and not \u201cunconfirmed.\u201d Hold the official lines separately. A DPA who briefs IMO\u2019s \u201cdamaged, no pollution, one seafarer missing\u201d as a UKMTO revision of 196-26 will over-read the PDF. Neither product has been revised tonight. A DPA who briefs Update 111 as having named Velos Sapphire will over-read a table that still reads Name withheld UFN.<\/p>\nWhat this is not<\/h2>\n
Operational implications<\/h2>\n
What Operators Should Note<\/h2>\n
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