Incidents · sinking

Distress signal received on 8414.5 mhz from M/V heng tai, 28 persons on board, taking on water in 10-13N…

Andaman or Burma Sea · HYDROPAC 1693/07

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2007-10-04 11:05Z

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 PB INDIA 02 OCT 07.. Issued 2007-10-02 03:35Z. 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: Andaman or Burma Sea. The parsed report position is 10.217, 95.200. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED ON 8414.5 MHZ
FROM M/V HENG TAI, 28 PERSONS ON BOARD,
TAKING ON WATER IN 10-13N 095-12E.
VESSELS IN VICINITY ARE REQUESTED TO KEEP
A SHARP, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
REPORTS TO MRCC PB INDIA, INMARSAT-C: 441908010,
PHONE: 91 319 224 5530, FAX: 91 319 224 2948,
E-MAIL: PBLMRCCPB@SANCHARNET.IN.

Reading this warning

Distress signal received: A rescue centre has received an alert — from a beacon, a radio call or a satellite terminal — and is asking ships to look.
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.
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.
Inmarsat-C / SafetyNET: The satellite system that carries NAVAREA warnings to ships at sea, and the terminal number rescue centres give for reports.

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

41 within 180 nm since 2002 · 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

All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.

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 06:35Z; 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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