39 foot F/V sadeepa putha, yellow hull, seven persons on board, disabled and adrift due to engine failure in…
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 2342/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-07-18 16:49Z
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 0/23 171720Z JUL 23.. Issued 2023-07-17 17:27Z. 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 4.567, 79.483. 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
- M/V grace disabled and adrift due to fishing net entangled in propeller in 08-42.00N 085-18.00Ecancelled by this notice
- 39 foot F/V sadeepa putha, yellow hull, seven persons on board adrift due to engine failure in 04-34.00N…cancelled by this notice
- Cancel HYDROPAC 2307/23(61), 2342/23 and this msglater cancellation notice
These reports were linked by category and sea, with positions within 30 nautical miles and issue dates within 30 days of another report's recorded in-force span. Links can extend through other members, so the full group can cover a larger area or period. Proximity does not confirm that they describe one incident.
- HYDROPAC 2341/232023-07-17 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 2342/23 · this notice2023-07-17 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2023-07-17 17:27Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC COLOMBO 0/23 171720Z JUL 23.
- issued by
- MRCC COLOMBO
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- 4.567, 79.483
- vessel
- F/V SADEEPA PUTHA · 2 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORTHERN INDIAN OCEAN. DNC 03. 1. 39 FOOT F/V SADEEPA PUTHA, YELLOW HULL, SEVEN PERSONS ON BOARD, DISABLED AND ADRIFT DUE TO ENGINE FAILURE IN 04-34.00N 079-29.00E AT 171355Z JUL. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC COLOMBO PHONE: 112 445 368, FAX: 112 441 454, 112 449 718, E-MAIL: NHQDNO@YAHOO.COM, MRCCCOLOMBO@GMAIL.COM. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 2329/23, 2341/23.
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.
- Persons on board (POB)
- The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
162 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.
- 40 foot F/V thurushika duwa yellow, red and blue hull, six persons on board, disabled and adrift2025-11-15
- F/V chuti du, green and yellow hull, reports crewman suffering from paralysis in 05-51.00N 078-04.00E at…2024-05-08
- 42 foot F/V laksmi amma 2, blue and white hull, six persons on board, disabled and adrift due to engine…2024-04-24
- Man overboard from F/V harini duwa 01 in 06-25.00N 079-45.00E at 251530Z feb2024-02-26
- F/V, white and blue hull, three persons on board, overdue hikkaduwa (06-08.83N 080-06.62E) and return2024-02-07
- F/V, white and blue hull, three persons on board, overdue2024-02-04
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 2026-10-01 03:29Z; 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) →
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.