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Advice, Loss Prevention

Sri Lanka – Wreck at Colombo anchorage

Intermarc Services, our H&M correspondents in Colombo, Sri Lanka, has provided us with the following information.

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Could you please inform all vessels calling  Colombo under your agencies/ ownership of the dangerous, partly submerged wreck of the m.v “Thermopylae Sierra” which sank at  about 1200Hrs LST today 23rd August 2012 in Position;

Lat.      06°    47.’15 N
Long.  079° 50’.16 E

All vessels should give this wreck a wide berth as debris may float at any time for the next few days/weeks.
A Notice to Mariners has also been sent to UKHO to be promulgated which will take some time

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