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F/v's disabled and adrift due to engine failure: a. 11 meter F/V manoj putta 2, white hull, five persons on…

Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 1373/13

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2013-05-23 13:20Z

This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.

Source and dates: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · NAVAREA VIII 275/13 131001Z MAY 13.. Issued 2013-05-13 12:05Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is 4.154, 82.362. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

NORTHERN INDIAN OCEAN.
BAY OF BENGAL.
1. F/V'S DISABLED AND ADRIFT DUE TO ENGINE FAILURE:
   A. 11 METER F/V MANOJ PUTTA 2, WHITE HULL,
      FIVE PERSONS ON BOARD, VICINITY 01-39N 084-59E
      AT 091030Z MAY.
   B. 12 METER F/V LAKSHI DUWA 06, YELLOW HULL,
      FIVE PERSONS ON BOARD, VICINITY 01-17N 081-00E
      AT 060230Z MAY.
   C. 12 METER F/V KAVEESHA 2, GREEN AND YELLOW HULL,
      FIVE PERSONS ON BOARD, VICINITY 02-42N 080-29E
      AT 111300Z MAY.
   D. 12 METER F/V DILSHAN 01, RED, WHITE AND BLUE HULL,
      SIX PERSONS ON BOARD, VICINITY 10-59N 082-59E
      AT 111200Z MAY.
   VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT,
   ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO ANY COASTAL RADIO STATION.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1336/13 AND 1351/13.

Reading this warning

Adrift: Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
Persons on board (POB): The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
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.
Cancellation reference: A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROPAC: The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.

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Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)

134 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 05:08Z; source collection times vary.

Incidents

Search-and-rescue broadcasts, published only once a case has been closed for 30 days: groundings, sinkings, capsizes, fires, man overboard, overdue vessels. Nothing here is live. All current distress & casualty cases (archived) →

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