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F/V chuti du, green and yellow hull, reports crewman suffering from paralysis in 05-51.00N 078-04.00E at…

Laccadive Sea · HYDROPAC 1539/24

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2024-05-09 07:44Z

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) · MRCC COLOMBO 0/24 081117Z MAY 24.. Issued 2024-05-08 11:42Z. 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: Laccadive Sea. The parsed report position is 5.850, 78.067. 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.
DNC 03.
F/V CHUTI DU, GREEN AND YELLOW HULL, REPORTS
CREWMAN SUFFERING FROM PARALYSIS IN
05-51.00N 078-04.00E AT 080748Z MAY. VESSELS IN
VICINITY ABLE TO PROVIDE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
REQUESTED TO ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
REPORTS TO MRCC COLOMBO, PHONE: 941 1244 5368,
EMAIL: NHQDNO@YAHOO.COM,
MRCCCOLOMBO@GMAIL.COM.

Reading this warning

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.
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.
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.

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

188 within 180 nm since 1999 · 1 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.

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

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Worldwide in the collected sources

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Record snapshot 2026-09-30 02:38Z; source collection times vary.

Incidents

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