Incidents · disabled

Two F/V disabled and adrift vicinity sri lanka (07-00N 081-45E) to cocos islands (12-07S 096-54E)

Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 1994/12

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2012-07-15 01:16Z

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) · AUSSAR 4618/12 UPDATE 140601Z JUL 12.. Issued 2012-07-14 07:22Z. 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 -5.328, 90.928. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

EASTERN INDIAN OCEAN.
1. TWO F/V DISABLED AND ADRIFT VICINITY SRI LANKA (07-00N 081-45E)
   TO COCOS ISLANDS (12-07S 096-54E). ONE POSSIBLE F/V,
   TEN TO 20 PERSONS ON BOARD, SIGHTED IN 10-52S 094-08E
   AT 140441Z JUL. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP
   A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IS POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO
   RCC AUSTRALIA, PHONE: 612 6230 6811,
   FAX: 612 6230 6868, E-MAIL: RCCAUS@AMSA.GOV.AU.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1976/12.

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.
Persons on board (POB): The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
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.
RCC / JRCC (Rescue Coordination Centre): The centre that organises search and rescue in its region; warnings ask ships to send their reports there.
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)

11 within 180 nm since 2002 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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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Incidents

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