Rescue coordination centre · Australia

AusSAR — Australian Search and Rescue

Recorded as: AUSSAR

The former name of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority's rescue coordination centre, now JRCC Australia.

Rescue coordination centres run search and rescue in their region. They issue warnings when a vessel is in distress, overdue or missing, when a person is overboard, or when a distress alert cannot be resolved, and they ask every ship in the area to keep a lookout and report. Many of their broadcasts are short-lived; seahazards publishes search-and-rescue messages only once the case has been closed for 30 days.

What the archive holds

2,887 messages in this archive record AUSSAR as their authority, issued from 2000-05-27 to 2015-10-11. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Incidents accounts for 2,010 of 2,887 recorded messages (70%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA VIII (3), NAVAREA XI (2) and NAVAREA XIV (2).

Located messages lie in 24 sea areas, most often Indian Ocean, Coral Sea and Tasman Sea.

The largest yearly count is 2013, with 494 messages.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in July and least often in February.

They reached this archive through HYDROPAC (2,881), HYDROLANT (5) and NAVAREA XII (1).

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA VIII 3 · NAVAREA XI 2 · NAVAREA XIV 2 · NAVAREA IX 1 · NAVAREA VII 1 · NAVAREA X 1 · NAVAREA XII 1 · NAVAREA XV 1

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROPAC 3342/15 · Other2015-10-10
    Cancel HYDROPAC 3259/15 and this msg
  2. HYDROPAC 2760/15 · Other2015-08-20
    Cancel HYDROPAC 2722/15 and this msg, persons located
  3. HYDROPAC 2756/15 · Incidents · South Pacific Ocean2015-08-20
    Six meter vessel, six persons on board, overdue buka island (05-24S 154-42E) to tinputz harbor (05-33S…
  4. HYDROPAC 2722/15 · Incidents · Solomon Sea2015-08-17
    19 foot vessel, two persons on board, overdue
  5. HYDROPAC 2708/15 · Other2015-08-16
    Cancel HYDROPAC 2707/15 and this msg, vessel assisted
  6. HYDROPAC 2707/15 · Incidents · Coral Sea2015-08-15
    M/V lucky, four persons on board, taking on water in 19-30S 150-13E
  7. HYDROPAC 2702/15 · Other2015-08-15
    Cancel HYDROPAC 2701/15 and this msg, assistance no longer needed
  8. HYDROPAC 2701/15 · Incidents · Tasman Sea2015-08-15
    Vessel, four persons on board, sinking in 30-45.2S 153-07.9E

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROPAC 785/00 · Incidents · Indian Ocean2000-05-27
    F/V petersen reports crewman with severe abdominal pain in 34-18S 107-24E at 270230Z may bound for fremantle…

Other rescue coordination centres in NAVAREA VIII

Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.

AusSAR — Australian Search and Rescue — navigational warnings it issued · seahazards