Distress & casualty cases (archived) in 2016

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.

issued in 2016
2,029
still in force
0
vs 2015
+5%
first · last
01-01 · 12-31

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By NAVAREA series

  • HYDROPAC1,226
  • HYDROLANT774
  • HYDROARC15
  • NAVAREA IV11
  • NAVAREA XII3

Where · top seas

North Pacific Ocean30921%
South China Sea28619%
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin23316%
North Atlantic Ocean21915%
South Atlantic Ocean1057%
South Pacific Ocean825%
Caribbean Sea725%
Philippine Sea664%
Indian Ocean624%
Coral Sea584%

All distress & casualty cases (archived) issued in 2016 · 2,029

  1. HYDROLANT 1146/162016-05-14 → 2016-05-22
    50 foot vessel miss dakota, four persons on board, disabled and adrift in 28-04.01N 091-12.21W
    Gulf of Mexico · Louisiana
  2. HYDROPAC 1417/162016-05-14 → 2016-06-22
    Man overboard from F/V bd 97785 ts in 10-07N 108-36E at 140200Z may
    South China Sea · Vietnam
  3. HYDROPAC 1414/162016-05-13 → 2016-05-15
    Papua new guinea
    Western South Pacific
  4. HYDROLANT 1143/162016-05-13 → 2016-05-17
    Man overboard from M/V carnival liberty in 27-32.3N 092-15.6W at 130700Z may
    Gulf of Mexico
  5. HYDROPAC 1399/162016-05-13 → 2016-05-13
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 15-19N 145-42E at 130529Z may
    Western North Pacific · Saipan
  6. HYDROPAC 1396/162016-05-13 → 2016-05-13
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 10-51N 142-45E at 130114Z may
    Western North Pacific
  7. HYDROPAC 1395/162016-05-13 → 2016-05-22
    60 foot F/V maximux taking on water in 27-30.3N 114-51.3W
    Eastern North Pacific · Mexico
  8. HYDROLANT 1137/162016-05-13 → 2016-05-13
    Vessel sinking in 16-11.85N 062-47.46W
    Eastern Caribbean Sea · Montserrat
  9. HYDROLANT 1136/162016-05-13 → 2016-05-15
    Vessel sunk in 16-14.28N 062-45.92W
    Eastern Caribbean Sea · Montserrat
  10. HYDROLANT 1135/162016-05-12 → 2016-05-12
    Cancel HYDROLANT 1130/16 and this msg, persons located safe
    North Atlantic · Greenland-southeast Coast
  11. HYDROPAC 1388/162016-05-12 → 2016-05-15
    Derelict 60 foot F/V capsized and adrift vicinity 29-03.4N 165-11.8E
    North Pacific
  12. HYDROLANT 1132/162016-05-12 → 2016-05-15
    18 meter F/V, blue hull, 300 persons on board, requesting assistance in 36-57N 018-13E
    Eastern Mediterranean Sea · Southern Ionian Sea
  13. HYDROLANT 1130/162016-05-12 → 2016-05-12
    Kayak, two persons on board, unreported tasiilaq (65-36N 037-34W) to kulusuk (65-34N 037-11W)
    North Atlantic · Greenland-southeast Coast
  14. HYDROPAC 1383/162016-05-11 → 2016-05-11
    Cancel HYDROPAC 1378/16 and this msg, search suspended
    Western North Pacific · Guam
  15. HYDROPAC 1381/162016-05-11 → 2016-05-11
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz from F/V yuanda vicinity 40-12S 155-04E at 111156Z may
    Tasman Sea
  16. HYDROLANT 1114/162016-05-11 → 2016-05-15
    Vessel, 110 persons on board, requesting assistance in 33-02N 013-35E at 110451Z may
    Eastern Mediterranean Sea · Libya
  17. HYDROPAC 1378/162016-05-11 → 2016-05-11
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 12-27.9N 143-47.1E
    Western North Pacific · Guam
  18. HYDROPAC 1375/162016-05-11 → 2016-05-12
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 11-44.1N 144-46.8E
    Western North Pacific · Guam
  19. HYDROPAC 1374/162016-05-11 → 2016-05-11
    Vessel spirit of 1770, 48 persons on board, on fire and taking on water, crew abandoning ship vicinity…
    Coral Sea · Australia-east Coast
  20. HYDROPAC 1372/162016-05-11 → 2016-05-11
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 38-26.2N 172-57.2E at 110429Z may
    North Pacific
  21. HYDROLANT 1113/162016-05-11 → 2016-05-11
    Person missing vicinity tuttuttooq (60-52N 046-27W) at 101200Z may
    Western North Atlantic · Davis Strait · Greenland-south Coast
  22. HYDROPAC 1368/162016-05-11 → 2016-05-15
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 01-39N 112-42W
    Eastern North Pacific
  23. HYDROPAC 1365/162016-05-10 → 2016-05-10
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 27-44.2N 146-57.1W at 101815Z may
    Eastern North Pacific
  24. HYDROPAC 1364/162016-05-10 → 2016-05-15
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 19-20N 109-12W
    Eastern North Pacific
  25. HYDROPAC 1360/162016-05-10 → 2016-05-10
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz vicinity 23-37.92S 151-28.08E at 101132Z may
    Coral Sea · Australia-east Coast
  26. HYDROPAC 1351/162016-05-09 → 2016-05-15
    F/V bd 95124-TS reports crewman requiring medical assistance in 16-50N 117-10E at 080100Z may
    South China Sea
  27. HYDROPAC 1346/162016-05-09 → 2016-05-09
    Cancel HYDROPAC 1293/16, exercises suspended
    Yellow Sea · Gunnery
  28. HYDROPAC 1345/162016-05-09 → 2016-05-09
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 09-49.9N 131-31.4E
    Western North Pacific · Philippine Sea
  29. HYDROPAC 1342/162016-05-09 → 2016-05-12
    Derelict 25 meter F/V STAR-7 capsized and adrift in 42-16.5N 132-53.5E at 090500Z may
    Sea of Japan · Russia
  30. HYDROPAC 1341/162016-05-09 → 2016-05-15
    M/V hoang minh 15, eight persons on board, disabled and adrift due to lost propeller in 19-16.5N 107-16.5E…
    Gulf of Tonkin
  31. HYDROPAC 1340/162016-05-09 → 2016-05-09
    18 foot M/V, four persons on board, overdue fais island (09-45.5N 140-31.3E) and return
    Western North Pacific · Micronesia
  32. HYDROPAC 1339/162016-05-08 → 2016-05-15
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz from M/V lam hong in 08-28.9N 108-40.5E at 081906Z may
    South China Sea
  33. HYDROLANT 1098/162016-05-08 → 2016-05-08
    Possible man overboard from S/V french tech rennes st malo in 33-08.9N 045-13.0W at 081747Z may
    Western North Atlantic
  34. HYDROLANT 1097/162016-05-08 → 2016-05-15
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 37-20N 045-34W at 081939Z may
    Western North Atlantic
  35. HYDROPAC 1338/162016-05-08 → 2016-05-15
    Distress signal received from M/V gss yangon in 07-22.60N 103-23.24E
    South China Sea · Gulf of Thailand
  36. HYDROPAC 1337/162016-05-08 → 2016-05-15
    Distress signal received from M/V mt tristen in 03-20N 109-36E at 080359Z may
    South China Sea · Indonesia
  37. HYDROPAC 1334/162016-05-08 → 2016-05-09
    3243 ton M/V mt hai soon 12, 20 persons on board, unreported
    South China Sea · Java Sea · Indonesia
  38. HYDROPAC 1329/162016-05-08 → 2016-05-08
    Cancel HYDROPAC 1324/16 and this msg, persons rescued
    Western South Pacific
  39. HYDROPAC 1328/162016-05-08 → 2016-05-14
    F/V qng 94559, 13 persons on board, disabled and adrift in 17-58N 114-20E at 041500Z may
    South China Sea
  40. HYDROPAC 1327/162016-05-07 → 2016-05-07
    Cancel HYDROPAC 1322/16 and this msg, vessel located safe
    Solomon Sea · Papua New Guinea
  41. HYDROPAC 1325/162016-05-07 → 2016-05-07
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 18-33.7N 115-09.4W
    Eastern North Pacific
  42. HYDROPAC 1324/162016-05-07 → 2016-05-08
    28 foot S/V lovinda too, two persons on board, taking on water and crew abandoning ship vicinity 31-24.0S…
    Western South Pacific
  43. HYDROLANT 1090/162016-05-07 → 2016-05-07
    Cancel HYDROLANT 1086/16(24)
    South Atlantic · North Sea
  44. HYDROPAC 1322/162016-05-07 → 2016-05-07
    Seven meter vessel, white hull, seven persons on board, overdue woodlark island (09-13.6S 152-56.8E) to iwa…
    Solomon Sea · Papua New Guinea
  45. HYDROLANT 1086/162016-05-06 → 2016-05-07
    Vessel mericia IV reports crewman sick in 25-29.82S 045-28.95W
    Brazil-south Coast
  46. HYDROPAC 1317/162016-05-06 → 2016-05-06
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 14-27.2N 155-20.0E
    Western North Pacific
  47. HYDROLANT 1083/162016-05-06 → 2016-05-08
    Man overboard from vessel in 01-17.5S 048-29.2W on 06 may
    Brazil-north Coast
  48. HYDROLANT 1081/162016-05-06 → 2016-05-15
    Persons missing from derelict M/V tamaya adrift in 13-29.47N 017-53.87W at 221200Z apr
    Eastern North Atlantic
  49. HYDROPAC 1314/162016-05-06 → 2016-05-06
    F/V qb 93910-TS, seven persons on board, disabled and adrift in 17-40N 107-15E at 061100Z may
    South China Sea · Vietnam
  50. HYDROPAC 1310/162016-05-06 → 2016-05-06
    Cancel HYDROPAC 1304/16 and this msg, vessel located safe
    South China Sea · Vietnam

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