First dated report in this archive
Issued 2024-04-24 04:56Z
42 foot F/V madu matha, blue and white hull, five persons on board, disabled and adrift due to engine…
Incidents · Northern Indian Ocean
Ship-name archive · official navigational warnings
Madu Matha
1 public warning uses this name, 2024-04-24. The notices cover Indian Ocean. Compare what each source reports, how its wording changes, and which identifiers are actually attached to the name.
These are mentions of a name. They can describe vessel operations, hazards or different ships using the same name.
What the reports establish
No displayed warning is recorded as in force. 1 has been cancelled. Cancellation concerns the notice; it does not establish the vessel’s current condition or a successful recovery.
Which vessel does this name identify?
No IMO or MMSI can be confidently attached to this name from the displayed warnings. A matching name alone cannot establish that these reports concern the same vessel.
Name styles in these reports: F/V. Interpreted vessel types: fishing vessel.
Warning record and geographic coverage
- Dated report span
- 0 days
- Warning days covered
- 842.6 days
- Separate warning periods
- 1
- Warnings with a map location
- 1 / 1
Warning days combine recorded issue-to-cancellation periods, counting overlapping days once. In-force notices extend to the calculation time. These periods describe the warning record, not days at sea or the duration of a vessel incident.
Reading these reports
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- Persons on board (POB)
- The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
- Adrift
- Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
- Position (degrees and minutes)
- How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
- Date-time group (DTG)
- A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
- Keep a sharp lookout
- A request to every ship in the area to watch for the vessel, people or object described.
- Assist if possible
- The second half of the standard rescue request: ships able to help are asked to do so.
- MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre)
- A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
Source warnings · 1
Oldest dated warning first; undated messages follow. Open each entry to read its complete original text.
One public mention is available. HYDROPAC 1343/24 contains the full warning record.
- 1IncidentsHYDROPAC 1343/24Issued 2024-04-24 04:56Z
42 foot F/V madu matha, blue and white hull, five persons on board, disabled and adrift due to engine…
Northern Indian Ocean · Indian Ocean
Warning cancelled 2026-08-14 18:10Z (dropped from inforce)
Read original warning
NORTHERN INDIAN OCEAN. DNC 03. 42 FOOT F/V MADU MATHA, BLUE AND WHITE HULL, FIVE PERSONS ON BOARD, DISABLED AND ADRIFT DUE TO ENGINE FAILURE IN 01-28.00N 080-00.00E AT 240348Z APR. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC COLOMBO, PHONE: 941 1244 5368, E-MAIL: NHQDNO@YAHOO.COM, MRCCCOLOMBO@GMAIL.COM.
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