Rescue coordination centre · United States

U.S. Coast Guard rescue centre, Guam

Recorded as: RCC GUAM

One of the U.S. Coast Guard's rescue coordination centres; its broadcasts ask ships in its region to look out for vessels and people in distress.

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

778 messages in this archive record RCC GUAM as their authority, issued from 2002-09-10 to 2024-05-09. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Incidents accounts for 675 of 778 recorded messages (87%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA X (1), NAVAREA XI (1) and NAVAREA XII (1).

Located messages lie in 5 sea areas, most often North Pacific Ocean, Philippine Sea and South Pacific Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2016, with 110 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 November and least often in January.

They reached this archive through HYDROPAC (777) and NAVAREA XII (1).

Messages by year of issue

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By month of issue, all years

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA X 1 · NAVAREA XI 1 · NAVAREA XII 1

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROPAC 1546/24 · Incidents · North Pacific Ocean2024-05-09
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 01-05.00N 136-56.00E on 09 may
  2. HYDROPAC 1542/24 · Incidents · North Pacific Ocean2024-05-08
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 05-57.0N 149-19.0E at 081600Z may
  3. HYDROPAC 1541/24 · Incidents · North Pacific Ocean2024-05-08
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 05-57.00N 149-01.00E at 081513Z may
  4. HYDROPAC 1528/24 · Incidents · North Pacific Ocean2024-05-07
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 06-02.00N 147-28.00E at 080203Z may
  5. HYDROPAC 1499/24 · Incidents · North Pacific Ocean2024-05-05
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 04-33.00N 141-37.00E at 050828Z may
  6. HYDROPAC 1101/24 · Incidents · North Pacific Ocean2024-04-06
    Vessel overdue in 07-37.46N 146-47.14E at 060146Z apr
  7. HYDROPAC 1097/24 · Incidents · North Pacific Ocean2024-04-05
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 04-36.00N 164-09.00E at 051713Z apr
  8. HYDROPAC 1026/24 · Other · North Pacific Ocean2024-03-29
    M/V ken voyager requesting assistance in 08-34.00N 144-48.00E

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROPAC 1646/02 · Incidents · North Pacific Ocean2002-09-09
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 05-26.9N 162-21.8E at 092151Z sep

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.