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SpaceX launches Starship's Integrated Flight Test 4, successfully guiding both the Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage to soft water landings in the Gulf of Mexico and the Indian Ocean, respectively.
2024-06-6

Cyclone Belal hits the Indian Ocean with flooding reported in Réunion and Mauritius.
2024-01-15

A drone launched from Iran strikes the Liberian-flagged, Japanese-owned chemical tanker "Chem Pluto" in the Indian Ocean.
2023-12-23

The Chinese government reports that the fishing vessel "Lu Peng Yuan Yu 028" capsized in the central Indian Ocean on Tuesday. China and other countries are conducting search operations for 39 sailors, including Chinese, Indonesian, and Filipino nationals.
2023-05-17

Searches led by Ocean Infinity move to a new section of the Indian Ocean after the initial search area was cleared without success. If the missing aircraft, which was carrying over 200 people, is not found by mid-June the search will be called off.
2018-05-2

Without recovering any physical evidence, including the data recorders, Malaysia officially declares the loss of Flight 370 over the Indian Ocean an accident meaning that victims families can seek compensation.
2015-01-29

The search area for the missing aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean is expanded with any debris likely to be found on the ocean floor with the minimum time anticipated for the search eight months.
2014-04-28

A UK government decision to create a controversial marine park in the Indian Ocean gets the go-ahead, though the intentions are questioned by former residents of the Chagos Islands all of whom were expelled by the British between 1965 and 1973 so that an airbase could be built by the United States on Diego Garcia.
2013-06-11

The Indian Navy captures 28 suspected Somali pirates on a Thai fishing vessel in the Indian Ocean.
2011-02-6

Somali pirates attack and seize a Liberian tanker with 24 crew on board in the Indian Ocean.
2010-10-30