The Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre Mumbai (MRCC) is responsible for co-ordinating air-sea rescue in Mumbai and an extensive area of the Arabian Sea.
[3] On the evening of 12 January 2012, INCG Amrit kaur was on a training mission west of the Suheli Par atoll in the Lakshadweep archipelago.
She was alerted by the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC), Mumbai about Somali pirate activity in the area to her west.
[4] On receiving distress call from MT Chios, a Greece-flagged crude oil tanker,[5] was being chased by heavily armed pirates about 82 nautical miles west of Suheli Par in the Lakshadweep archipelago.
The tanker, on its way from Singapore to Yemen, adopted best management practices and evasive manoeuvres to dodge the skiffs on the prowl.