Incidents · overdue

72 meter M/V sea star VI, seven persons on board, unreported, disabled and adrift

Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 770/19

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2019-03-22 12:01Z

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 MUMBAI 071847Z MAR 19.. Issued 2019-03-07 19:21Z. 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 23.550, 65.583. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued
2019-03-07 19:21Z
status
Archived notice
authority
MRCC MUMBAI 071847Z MAR 19.
issued by
MRCC MUMBAI
sea
Arabian Sea
position
23.550, 65.583
vessel
M/V SEA STAR VI
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

ARABIAN SEA.
DNC 03.
72 METER M/V SEA STAR VI, SEVEN PERSONS ON BOARD,
UNREPORTED, DISABLED AND ADRIFT. LAST KNOWN POSITION
IN 23-33N 065-35E AT 07 MAR.
VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP
LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
REPORTS TO MRCC MUMBAI,
PHONE: 9122 2438 8065, 9122 2438 3592,
FAX: 9122 2431 6558,
E-MAIL: INDSAR@VSNL.NET.

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.
Last known position
The most recent confirmed position of a missing vessel or person — the starting point of a search.
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.
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.

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

57 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 22:21Z; 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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