Rescue coordination centre

RCC AUSTRALIA SSM

Recorded as: RCC AUSTRALIA SSM

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

62 messages in this archive record RCC AUSTRALIA SSM as their authority, issued from 2000-01-11 to 2008-04-20. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Derelicts accounts for 35 of 62 recorded messages (56%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

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

Located messages lie in 7 sea areas, most often Arafura Sea, Timor Sea and Indian Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2003, with 15 messages.

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

They reached this archive through HYDROPAC (62).

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Where

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Most recently issued

  1. HYDROPAC 745/08 · Derelicts · Timor Sea2008-04-20
    Derelict 20 meter F/V partially submerged and adrift in 11-24S 126-28E at 200539Z apr
  2. HYDROPAC 412/08 · Derelicts · Tasman Sea2008-03-03
    Seven meter vessel, black hull, adrift in 34-32S 151-33E at 030430Z mar
  3. HYDROPAC 409/08 · Incidents · Arafura Sea2008-03-02
    Derelict 12 meter vessel capsized and adrift in 10-05-52S 135-17-45E at 010713Z mar
  4. HYDROPAC 249/08 · Derelicts · Tasman Sea2008-02-09
    Derelict 13 meter S/V, blue hull, adrift in 30-55.5S 153-13.8E
  5. HYDROPAC 1686/07 · Containers · Great Australian Bight2007-10-01
    Two containers adrift in 38-36S 140-24E at 010720Z oct
  6. HYDROPAC 896/07 · Debris · Great Australian Bight2007-05-20
    Yellow unlit buoy with 40 meter long cable adrift vicinity 38-37S 140-51E at 191735Z may
  7. HYDROPAC 871/07 · Derelicts · Coral Sea2007-05-12
    Derelict F/V partially submerged and adrift vicinity 12-35.2S 143-24.2E
  8. HYDROPAC 856/07 · Debris · Tasman Sea2007-05-11
    Six meter by three meter buoy adrift vicinity 35-17.7S 150-54.4E at 110230Z may

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROPAC 53/00 · Other · Coral Sea2000-01-11
    Fishing gear marked by two white floats in 23-47.9S 152-04.6E

Other rescue coordination centres in NAVAREA X

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