Incidents · overdue

28 foot S/V argo, white hull, one person on board, unreported tromsoe (69-40N 018-56E) to longyearbyen…

Norwegian Sea · HYDROARC 210/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2016-10-12 15:17Z

This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.

Source and dates: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · JRCC NORTH NORWAY 050700Z SEP 16.. Issued 2016-09-05 08:39Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Norwegian Sea. The parsed report position is 72.844, 17.406. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

ARCTIC.
NORWEGIAN SEA.
NORWAY TO SVALBARD.
DNC 21, DNC 22.
1. 28 FOOT S/V ARGO, WHITE HULL, ONE PERSON ON BOARD,
   UNREPORTED TROMSOE (69-40N 018-56E)
   TO LONGYEARBYEN (78-13N 015-39E).
   LAST KNOWN POSITION 70-39N 017-38E
   ON 27 AUG. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED
   TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
   REPORTS TO JRCC NORTH NORWAY,
   PHONE: 477 555 9000 OR ANY COASTAL RADIO STATION.
2. CANCEL HYDROARC 203/16.

Reading this warning

DNC (Digital Nautical Chart): A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
Persons on board (POB): The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
Position (degrees and minutes): How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
Last known position: The most recent confirmed position of a missing vessel or person — the starting point of a search.
Keep a sharp lookout: A request to every ship in the area to watch for the vessel, people or object described.
Assist if possible: The second half of the standard rescue request: ships able to help are asked to do so.
RCC / JRCC (Rescue Coordination Centre): The centre that organises search and rescue in its region; warnings ask ships to send their reports there.
Cancellation reference: A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROARC: The U.S. long-range warning series for the Arctic Ocean.

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Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)

2 within 180 nm since 2016 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.

S/V argo, white hull, unreported tromsoe (69-40N 018-56E) to longyearbyen (78-13N 015-39E)2016-09-03

Month of issue in the collected archive

All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.

Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 23:26Z; source collection times vary.

Incidents

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. All current distress & casualty cases (archived) →

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