Tug shivali and barge disabled and adrift due to steering failure in vicinity 08-26.91N 084-55.45E at…
Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 790/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-03-10 13:13Z
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 081845Z MAR 23.. Issued 2023-03-08 23:14Z. 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 8.448, 84.924. 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
- Cancel HYDROPAC 790/23 and this msg, assistance no longer neededlater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Bay of Bengal →
- issued
- 2023-03-08 23:14Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC COLOMBO 0/23 081845Z MAR 23.
- issued by
- MRCC COLOMBO
- sea
- Bay of Bengal
- position
- 8.448, 84.924
- vessel
- TUG SHIVALI · 3 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
BAY OF BENGAL. DNC 03. TUG SHIVALI AND BARGE DISABLED AND ADRIFT DUE TO STEERING FAILURE IN VICINITY 08-26.91N 084-55.45E AT 081030Z MAR. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC COLOMBO, PHONE: 941 1244 5368, FAX: 941 1244 1454, 941 1244 9718, E-MAIL: NHQDNO@YAHOO.COM, MRCCCOLOMBO@GMAIL.COM.
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.
- Tow / towing
- A vessel towing another vessel, a barge or a structure — slow, hard to manoeuvre, and with a long line between.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
54 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, yellow, white and blue hull, possibly disabled due to collision in 09-12N 083-24E at 270030Z feb2024-02-27
- 330 meter M/V serene 01, disabled and adrift due to engine failure in 06-04.00N 085-21.00E at 080100Z sep2023-09-08
- M/V grace disabled and adrift due to fishing net entangled in propeller in 08-42.00N 085-18.00E2023-07-16
- M/V grace not under command in vicinity 08-04.00N 085-00.00E at 151900Z jul2023-07-15
- M/V vishva anand, possibly disabled and adrift in vicinity 08-06.34N 082-38.63E at 050409Z may2023-05-05
- Derelict F/V adrift in vicinity 08-01.00N 083-51.00E at 111130Z dec2022-12-12
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 2026-10-01 03:54Z; 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.