Rescue coordination centre

MRCC COLOMBO

Recorded as: MRCC COLOMBO

The name suggests a rescue coordination centre; seahazards has not verified who this issuer is. What follows is what the messages recorded under this name show.

Rescue coordination centres run search and rescue in their region. They issue warnings when a vessel is in distress, overdue or missing, when a person is overboard, or when a distress alert cannot be resolved, and they ask every ship in the area to keep a lookout and report. Many of their broadcasts are short-lived; seahazards publishes search-and-rescue messages only once the case has been closed for 30 days.

What the archive holds

558 messages in this archive record MRCC COLOMBO as their authority, issued from 2012-03-22 to 2024-05-09. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Incidents accounts for 309 of 558 recorded messages (55%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Located messages lie in 6 sea areas, most often Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and Laccadive Sea.

The largest yearly count is 2023, with 198 messages. Collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17, so those years are not comparable.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in May and least often in February.

They reached this archive through HYDROPAC (556) and HYDROARC (2).

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Earliest in the archive

HYDROPAC 825/12 · Incidents · Bay of Bengal2012-03-21
Vessels disabled and adrift on 19 mar: a. vessel evershine III, green and yellow hull, five persons on…

Other rescue coordination centres

Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.