# Piracy outage reports and status

Canonical page: https://iszdown.com/now/pirate-ship

Status: Website reachable in latest check

24-hour window (UTC): 2026-10-18T06:40:00.000Z to 2026-10-19T06:40:00.000Z

Recorded outage reports in this window: 0

Last successful estimated-activity check: No usable observation available

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, while the dedicated ships that pirates use are called pirate ships. The earliest documented instances of piracy were in the 14th century BC, when the Sea Peoples, a group of ocean raiders, attacked the ships of the Aegean and Mediterranean civilizations. Narrow channels which funnel shipping into predictable routes have long created opportunities for piracy, as well as for privateering and commerce raiding. Historic examples include the waters of Gibraltar, the Strait of Malacca, Madagascar, the Gulf of Aden, and the English Channel, whose geographic structures facilitated pirate attacks.

## How to interpret this page

Estimated down reports are based on US Google Trends problem-intent searches. Values are relative activity from 0 to 100, not counts of submitted reports. The HTML chart averages samples into ten-minute intervals. Partial samples are excluded and missing samples are not invented.

Recorded outage reports and estimated activity are separate signals. Neither confirms that every user is affected. Missing or stale data does not establish that a service is working.

Methodology: https://iszdown.com/methodology

## Citation

Cite [Piracy on Iszdown](https://iszdown.com/now/pirate-ship), include your access time and the observation time above, and qualify estimated activity as an estimate. Recheck before describing current status. Iszdown is independent of the monitored provider.

## Estimated activity samples

No usable Google Trends samples are available for this service in this window.

## Evidence and recovery

Website reachable in latest check. The public website responded; signed-in features and APIs were not tested.

No recent recovery can be established from available evidence.

## Website measurements

Successful sampled checks (24h): 100% (3/3). Restricted checks: 0. Median response: 1068 ms. P95 response: 1190 ms.

These are sampled public website checks from one US server, not continuous uptime or authenticated app/API tests. Missing data stays unknown.


## Related services

- [Piracy](https://iszdown.com/now/pirate-ship)