Incidents · disabled

31 meter M/V varatharajan, eight persons on board, disabled and adrift due to engine failure in vicinity…

Laccadive Sea · HYDROPAC 890/24

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2024-04-05 15:45Z

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 0/24 170543Z MAR 24.. Issued 2024-03-17 06:10Z. 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: Laccadive Sea. The parsed report position is 11.737, 73.723. 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 Laccadive Sea →

issued: 2024-03-17 06:10Z
status: Archived notice
authority: MRCC MUMBAI 0/24 170543Z MAR 24.
issued by: MRCC MUMBAI
sea: Laccadive Sea
position: 11.737, 73.723
vessel: M/V VARATHARAJAN
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

ARABIAN SEA.
LAKSHADWEEP.
DNC 03.
31 METER M/V VARATHARAJAN, EIGHT PERSONS ON BOARD,
DISABLED AND ADRIFT DUE TO ENGINE FAILURE IN
VICINITY 11-44.20N 073-43.36E. VESSELS IN VICINITY
REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT,
ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC MUMBAI,
PHONE: 9122 2438 8065, 9122 2438 3592,
EMAIL: MRCC-WEST@INDIANCOASTGUARD.NIC.IN.

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.
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)

132 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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.

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

Hazardous operations 0230Z to 0800Z daily 28 thru 30 sep in area bound by 10-50.00N 075-00.00E, 10-50.00N…Exercises · 115.5 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

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

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