F/V tf 101 disabled and adrift in 11-18N 089-38E at 250900Z oct
Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 1798/05
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2005-12-07 16:33Z
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 PORT BLAIR 25 OCT 05.. Issued 2005-10-25 18:01Z. 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
- Bay of Bengal. The parsed report position is 11.300, 89.633. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Current notices and reporting history in the Bay of Bengal →
- issued
- 2005-10-25 18:01Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC PORT BLAIR 25 OCT 05.
- issued by
- MRCC PORT BLAIR
- sea
- Bay of Bengal
- position
- 11.300, 89.633
- vessel
- F/V TF 101 · 2 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
F/V TF 101 DISABLED AND ADRIFT IN 11-18N 089-38E AT 250900Z OCT. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC PORT BLAIR, INMARSAT-C: 44 190 8010, PHONE: 9131 9224 2948.
Reading this warning
- 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.
- Inmarsat-C / SafetyNET
- The satellite system that carries NAVAREA warnings to ships at sea, and the terminal number rescue centres give for reports.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
15 within 180 nm since 2003 · 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.
- F/V sandeepani adrift in vicinity 10-08N 086-50E at 110330Z apr2019-04-11
- Derelict F/V SACHINI2 adrift in 11-54N 086-49E at 100315Z feb2019-02-10
- Derelict F/V fahima faheda partially submerged and adrift in 12-20N 091-12E 2. cancel this msg 061147Z nov 172017-11-03
- Derelict F/V adrift in vicinity 11-31N 088-18E2017-10-17
- F/V dinusha baby 2 disabled and adrift due to engine failure in 11-00N 087-20E at 101100Z jan2017-01-10
- M/V zy hi sheng disabled and adrift due to engine trouble in 12-51.2N 088-27.4E at 200400Z may2015-05-20
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
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 06:35Z; source collection times vary.
Derelicts
Abandoned, disabled or drifting vessels. All current derelict & adrift vessels →
Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.