Rescue coordination centre

MRCC ETEL

Recorded as: MRCC ETEL

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

278 messages in this archive record MRCC ETEL as their authority, issued from 1999-09-27 to 2024-04-09. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Incidents accounts for 155 of 278 recorded messages (56%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA II (3) and NAVAREA III (1).

Located messages lie in 5 sea areas, most often Bay of Biscay, North Atlantic Ocean and Celtic Sea.

The largest yearly count is 2018, with 36 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 February and least often in March.

They reached this archive through HYDROLANT (275) and HYDROPAC (3).

Messages by year of issue

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA II 3 · NAVAREA III 1

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROLANT 739/24 · Incidents · Bay of Biscay2024-04-08
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz from S/V lucente solo sailor in 44-53.20N 005-57.30W at 081924Z apr
  2. HYDROLANT 2953/23 · Derelicts · Celtic Sea2023-12-27
    Derelict 150 meter M/V guana, blue hull, adrift in vicinity 47-25.19N 006-30.10W
  3. HYDROLANT 2804/23 · Incidents · Bay of Biscay2023-12-04
    Distress signal received on 121.5 and 406 mhz in 44-52.60N 006-18.06W
  4. HYDROLANT 2499/23 · Incidents · Bay of Biscay2023-11-02
    Distress signal received on 121.5 and 406 mhz in 45-11.00N 002-30.20W
  5. HYDROLANT 2119/23 · Derelicts · North Atlantic Ocean2023-09-21
    Derelict 12 meter S/V, blue hull, adrift in vicinity 46-22.00N 006-40.00W at 201150Z sep
  6. HYDROLANT 2836/22 · Incidents · Bay of Biscay2022-11-07
    15 meter S/V lissy III, five persons on board, requesting assistance in 44-53.96N 005-56.02W
  7. HYDROLANT 2156/22 · Incidents · Bay of Biscay2022-08-31
    S/V isabelle II, two persons on board, overdue la coruna (43-21.44N 008-24.41W) to belle ile island…
  8. HYDROLANT 2048/22 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2022-08-17
    16 meter S/V chalbaya, orange hull, two persons on board, overdue from horta (38-35.00N 028-42.00W) to…

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROLANT 2052/99 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean1999-09-26
    Man overboard from M/V karawa vicinity 42-23.5N 009-48W at 252000Z sep

Other rescue coordination centres in NAVAREA II

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