Distress & casualty cases (archived) in the Bay of Biscay

Search-and-rescue broadcasts, published only once a case has been closed for 30 days: groundings, sinkings, capsizes, fires, man overboard, overdue vessels. Nothing here is live.

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Coverage note: the NGA archive ends 2024-05 and live collection began 2026-08-17. Warnings issued in between are here only if they were still in force when collection started, so 2024–2026 are under-counted.

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Other hazards in the Bay of Biscay

Archive · 105 cancelled

  1. HYDROLANT 3972/002000-11-29 → 2001-01-11
    Distress signal received on 243 mhz in 46-11N 003-11W
  2. HYDROLANT 3729/002000-11-06 → 2000-11-06
    Distress signal received from 80 foot S/V creightons naturally, yellow hull, 19 or 20 persons on board, in…
  3. HYDROLANT 2603/991999-12-03 → 2000-01-14
    Man overboard from M/V pride of bilbao vicinity 46-00.7N 004-18.4W at 022030Z dec
  4. HYDROLANT 2446/991999-11-14 → 1999-11-14
    Distress signal received vicinity 45-32N 005-08W at 141214Z nov
  5. HYDROLANT 2057/991999-09-27 → 1999-11-12
    Man overboard from M/V karawa vicinity of trackline between 42-23.5N 009-48W at 252000Z sep and 48-38.4N…

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