Derelict M/V mol comfort on fire and sinking with debris in 12-33N 059-46E
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 1754/13
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2013-06-19 11:15Z
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) · MARLO ADVISORY 171250Z JUN 13.. Issued 2013-06-17 13:57Z. 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
- Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 12.550, 59.767. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Derelict M/V mol comfort adrift: a. stern in 12-57.0N 061-10.0E at 190100Z junlater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2013-06-17 13:57Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2013-06-20 14:00Z
- authority
- MARLO ADVISORY 171250Z JUN 13.
- issued by
- MARLO ADVISORY
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 12.550, 59.767
- vessel
- M/V MOL COMFORT · 6 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA. 1. DERELICT M/V MOL COMFORT ON FIRE AND SINKING WITH DEBRIS IN 12-33N 059-46E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 201400Z JUN 13.
Reading this warning
- Derelict
- An abandoned vessel still afloat and drifting, with no one on board.
- 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
26 within 180 nm since 2004 · 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.
- Distress signal received in 10-45.00N 061-30.00E2024-03-15
- 12 meter S/V exultet II, white hull, seven persons on board, overdue sri lanka (06-56.00N 079-52.00E) to…2023-03-22
- Man overboard from M/V galini in vicinity 10-57.1N 061-33.4E at 262200Z feb2022-02-27
- 32 foot S/V liahona, white hull, one person on board, overdue honolulu (21-18.42N 157-51.50W) to majuro…2021-09-05
- M/V gray palm reports crewman requiring medical assistance in 13-15N 060-20E at 1730Z mar2021-03-06
- M/V faneromeni reports fire and person requiring medical assistance in 11-02-01N 060-43-59E2020-08-19
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 01:58Z; 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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