Rescue coordination centre

MRCC CAPE TOWN

Recorded as: MRCC CAPE TOWN

The name suggests a rescue coordination centre; seahazards has not verified who this issuer is. What follows is what the messages recorded under this name show.

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

201 messages in this archive record MRCC CAPE TOWN as their authority, issued from 1999-08-31 to 2024-04-19. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Incidents accounts for 145 of 201 recorded messages (72%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Located messages lie in 4 sea areas, most often South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and Mozambique Channel.

The largest yearly count is 2018, with 29 messages. Collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17, so those years are not comparable.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in May and least often in August.

They reached this archive through HYDROLANT (107) and HYDROPAC (94).

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Warning types

Where

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROLANT 834/24 · Incidents · South Atlantic Ocean2024-04-19
    Distress signal received in 42-26.20S 014-07.20E
  2. HYDROPAC 1221/24 · Incidents · Mozambique Channel2024-04-15
    Man overboard from cableship kavo perdika in 22-18.37S 038-05.49E
  3. HYDROLANT 536/24 · Incidents2024-03-15
    Cancel HYDROLANT 533/24, 528/24, and this msg, persons rescued
  4. HYDROLANT 533/24 · Incidents · South Atlantic Ocean2024-03-14
    Vessel nina pope sinking in 37-38.75S 007-21.79W at 140908Z mar
  5. HYDROLANT 528/24 · Incidents · South Atlantic Ocean2024-03-14
    Distress signal received from vessel in 37-55.31S 007-31.07W
  6. HYDROLANT 6/24 · Incidents · South Atlantic Ocean2024-01-02
    Distress signal received from vessel in 40-36.00S 005-39.00W
  7. HYDROLANT 4/24 · Incidents · South Atlantic Ocean2024-01-02
    Distress signal received in 40-36.00S 005-39.00E
  8. HYDROPAC 4016/23 · Other · Mozambique Channel2023-12-26
    117 meter M/V apollo triumph on fire in 17-47.00S 041-10.00E

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROLANT 1831/99 · Other · South Atlantic Ocean1999-08-30
    Distres signal received in 23-57S 005-18W at 301315Z aug

Other rescue coordination centres

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