Distress & casualty cases (archived) in the South Pacific Ocean

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 South Pacific Ocean

Archive · 2,008 cancelled

  1. HYDROPAC 1637/032003-09-23 → 2003-09-23
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz from F/V dongwon 205 in 02-13.6S 134-07.9W at 231756Z sep
  2. HYDROPAC 1608/032003-09-18 → 2003-09-18
    818 in 02-18S 164-51E
    Distress Signal Received From F/V Fong Seong No
  3. HYDROPAC 1567/032003-09-12 → 2003-09-12
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz vicinity 45-02S 174-51E
  4. HYDROPAC 1418/032003-08-19 → 2003-09-30
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz in 36-26S 173-54W
  5. HYDROPAC 1417/032003-08-19 → 2003-09-30
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz in 50-11S 141-56W and 41-52S 158-46W
  6. HYDROPAC 1416/032003-08-19 → 2003-09-30
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz in 36-51S 177-06E
  7. HYDROPAC 1403/032003-08-14 → 2003-08-15
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz from S/V morpheus vicinity 16-30.6S 151-45.5W
  8. HYDROPAC 1375/032003-08-10 → 2003-08-10
    Person requiring medical assistance on pitcairn island (25-04S 130-06W)
  9. HYDROPAC 1339/032003-08-04 → 2003-09-21
    27 foot vessel, white hull with green stripe, unreported from huahine island (16-45S 151-00W)
  10. HYDROPAC 1310/032003-07-29 → 2003-07-29
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz in 49-05S 175-58W
  11. HYDROPAC 1285/032003-07-26 → 2003-07-27
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz in 19-40S 174-59W
  12. HYDROPAC 1263/032003-07-22 → 2003-07-22
    F/V long dar, 23 persons on board, sunk in 29-54S 176-39E at 220500Z jul
  13. HYDROPAC 1237/032003-07-17 → 2003-07-17
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz vicinity 53-35S 136-55W at 162130Z jul
  14. HYDROPAC 1176/032003-07-07 → 2003-07-08
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz in 20-25S 174-42W
  15. HYDROPAC 1175/032003-07-07 → 2003-08-26
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz in 19-46S 174-21W
  16. HYDROPAC 1174/032003-07-07 → 2003-08-26
    S/V sky walker, two persons on board, taking on water in 20-18.8S 174-31.5W at 071037Z jul
  17. HYDROPAC 1151/032003-07-03 → 2003-07-03
    Distress signal received on 243 mhz vicinity 39-20S 178-42E
  18. HYDROPAC 1148/032003-07-03 → 2003-07-03
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz vicinity 14-50S 174-33W
  19. HYDROPAC 1130/032003-07-01 → 2003-07-01
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz in 37-50S 176-53E
  20. HYDROPAC 1109/032003-06-27 → 2003-06-28
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz in 22-17S 177-23W
  21. HYDROPAC 1103/032003-06-27 → 2003-06-27
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz in 22-30S 177-00W at 271625Z jun
  22. HYDROPAC 1072/032003-06-23 → 2003-06-23
    F/V ciudad real, white hull, six persons on board, adrift vicinity 04-31S 081-52W
  23. HYDROPAC 1048/032003-06-18 → 2003-06-18
    Distress signal received on 121.5 and 243 mhz in 20-37S 175-02W
  24. HYDROPAC 1047/032003-06-18 → 2003-08-02
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz in 38-36S 179-21E
  25. HYDROPAC 1046/032003-06-18 → 2003-06-18
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz in 21-14S 172-11W
  26. HYDROPAC 1037/032003-06-17 → 2003-06-17
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz vicinity 33-36S 178-16W
  27. HYDROPAC 1007/032003-06-12 → 2003-07-26
    S/V peace haven, three persons on board, has blown out foresail and is in danger of rolling in 35-43.4S…
  28. HYDROPAC 984/032003-06-08 → 2003-06-09
    Distress signal received from F/V ile aux moines in 11-39S 097-48W
  29. HYDROPAC 956/032003-06-03 → 2003-07-19
    Distress signal received from S/V maya in 17-35S 149-37W
  30. HYDROPAC 861/032003-05-19 → 2003-05-19
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz vicinity 30-23S 177-50W
  31. HYDROPAC 838/032003-05-15 → 2003-05-16
    16 foot M/V, two persons on board, unreported
  32. HYDROPAC 790/032003-05-06 → 2003-05-07
    S/V viracocha II, nine persons on board, unreported to isla de pascua (27-09S 109-26W)
  33. HYDROPAC 670/032003-04-16 → 2003-04-16
    Distress signal received on 243 mhz vicinity 47-07S 151-19W
  34. HYDROPAC 635/032003-04-10 → 2003-04-10
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz vicinity 40-00S 179-00W
  35. HYDROPAC 632/032003-04-09 → 2003-04-18
    S/V viracocha II, nine persons on board, unreported valparaiso to isla de pascua
  36. HYDROPAC 594/032003-04-03 → 2003-04-09
    S/V viracocha II, nine persons on board, unreported valparaiso to isla de pascua
  37. HYDROPAC 574/032003-03-29 → 2003-04-03
    S/V viracocha II, nine persons on board, unreported valparaiso to isla de pascua
  38. HYDROPAC 543/032003-03-26 → 2003-03-26
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz vicinity 14-22S 171-01W
  39. HYDROPAC 538/032003-03-26 → 2003-03-26
    Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz vicinity 39-30S 179-00E
  40. HYDROPAC 528/032003-03-24 → 2003-04-05
    Distress signal received from 11 meter M/V virgen del carmen, yellow hull, in 12-56S 077-57W
  41. HYDROPAC 527/032003-03-24 → 2003-04-05
    Distress signal received from M/V betty, blue and white hull, four persons on board in 09-42S 080-24W
  42. HYDROPAC 526/032003-03-24 → 2003-04-05
    1 meter M/V isla lobos de afuera, red hull, four persons on board, unreported
  43. HYDROPAC 447/032003-03-14 → 2003-03-14
    12 meter vessel eroica, one person on board, sinking in 29-21.7S 160-49.2E
  44. HYDROPAC 443/032003-03-12 → 2003-03-14
    Vessel eroika, taking on water and in need of immediate assistance in 28-29S 161-51E at 121645 mar
  45. HYDROPAC 423/032003-03-10 → 2003-04-29
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz from F/V atlantic dauphin in 28-23S 174-45E at 092226Z mar
  46. HYDROPAC 255/032003-02-12 → 2003-02-12
    Person requiring medical assistance on henderson island (24-20S 128-20W)
  47. HYDROPAC 234/032003-02-09 → 2003-03-29
    M/V ray tai reports master requiring medical assistance in 10-59S 168-00W
  48. HYDROPAC 210/032003-02-05 → 2003-03-22
    Vessel reports crewman with leg injury vicinity 46-00S 144-41W
  49. HYDROPAC 196/032003-02-03 → 2003-02-11
    6 meter F/V pangea I, two persons on board, adrift in 11-44S 078-10W
  50. HYDROPAC 172/032003-01-30 → 2003-02-03
    Six meter vessel, ten persons on board, overdue karu village (03-27S 152-12E) to lihir island (03-10S 152-35E)

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