Rescue coordination centre

MRCC NOUMEA

Recorded as: MRCC NOUMEA

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

151 messages in this archive record MRCC NOUMEA as their authority, issued from 2000-04-21 to 2024-02-02. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Incidents accounts for 95 of 151 recorded messages (63%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

All of those that can be attributed to a NAVAREA belong to NAVAREA XI.

Located messages lie in 2 sea areas, most often Coral Sea and South Pacific Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2020, with 16 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 April and least often in December.

They reached this archive through HYDROPAC (151).

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Where

NAVAREA XI 1

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROPAC 402/24 · Other2024-02-02
    Cancel HYDROPAC 398/24 and this msg
  2. HYDROPAC 398/24 · Incidents · South Pacific Ocean2024-02-01
    Distress flare sighted in vicinity in 19-58.00S 171-00.00E at 011425Z feb
  3. HYDROPAC 258/24 · Exercises · Coral Sea2024-01-22
    Gunnery exercises 252100Z to 260330Z jan in area within ten miles of 22-42.00S 166-00.00E
  4. HYDROPAC 3905/23 · Derelicts · Coral Sea2023-12-13
    Derelict 16 meter vessel adrift in vicinity 23-00.00S 161-00.00E
  5. HYDROPAC 3573/23 · Exercises · Coral Sea2023-11-13
    Gunnery exercises 132200Z to 140100Z and 140200Z to 140500Z nov in area within ten miles of 22-42.00S…
  6. HYDROPAC 3289/23 · Incidents · Coral Sea2023-10-16
    17 meter S/V dani, two persons on board, overdue port vila (17-44.00S 168-19.00E) to port moresby (09-28.73S…
  7. HYDROPAC 3179/23 · Other2023-10-06
    Cancel HYDROPAC 3172/23 and this msg
  8. HYDROPAC 3172/23 · Incidents · Coral Sea2023-10-05
    Rowboat maiwar, unreported

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROPAC 606/00 · Incidents · South Pacific Ocean2000-04-21
    Distress signal received from vessel da qing in 23-45S 168-40E

Other rescue coordination centres in NAVAREA XI

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