Distress & casualty cases (archived) in 2021

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 2021
1,209
still in force
0
vs 2020
-6%
first · last
01-01 · 12-31

By month

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By NAVAREA series

  • HYDROPAC1,006
  • HYDROLANT146
  • NAVAREA IV28
  • NAVAREA XII26
  • HYDROARC3

Where · top seas

South China Sea25130%
North Pacific Ocean14918%
South Pacific Ocean729%
Indian Ocean698%
Arabian Sea627%
Laccadive Sea617%
South Atlantic Ocean567%
North Atlantic Ocean516%
Coral Sea395%
Philippine Sea324%

All distress & casualty cases (archived) issued in 2021 · 1,209

  1. HYDROPAC 20/212021-01-03 → 2021-01-03
    Christmas island DNC 04
    Eastern Indian Ocean
  2. HYDROPAC 19/212021-01-03 → 2021-01-04
    F/V, four persons on board, sank in 11-52N 109-17E at 021800Z jan
    South China Sea · Vietnam
  3. HYDROPAC 18/212021-01-03 → 2021-01-03
    Cancel HYDROPAC 3800/20 and this msg, search suspended
    Bismarck Sea · Papua New Guinea
  4. HYDROPAC 17/212021-01-03 → 2021-01-22
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in vicinity 01-27.5N 159-55.7E at 021012Z jan
    Western North Pacific
  5. HYDROPAC 16/212021-01-02 → 2021-01-22
    F/V dna 90981, 11 persons on board, disabled and adrift due to engine trouble in 16-58N 108-38E at 021000Z jan
    South China Sea · Vietnam
  6. HYDROLANT 6/212021-01-02 → 2021-01-02
    Distress signals received on 406 mhz in: a. 48-04.5S 001-04.1W
    Eastern South Atlantic
  7. HYDROPAC 4/212021-01-01 → 2021-01-15
    F/V, numerous persons on board, unreported
    Western South Pacific · Indonesia
  8. HYDROPAC 2/212021-01-01 → 2021-01-01
    Vessel on fire, three persons in water, in 02-35.2N 081-03.3W
    Eastern North Pacific
  9. HYDROPAC 1/212021-01-01 → 2021-01-15
    Distress signal received in 06-41N 113-40E at 311833Z dec
    South China Sea · Malaysia

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