Incidents · disabled

F/V grampian fury, 28 persons on board, disabled and adrift vicinity 36-15S 053-25W

South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1432/05

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2005-08-17 04:44Z

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) · NAVAREA VI 201/05 071400Z AUG 05.. Issued 2005-08-08 03:09Z. 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: South Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is -36.250, -53.417. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

1. F/V GRAMPIAN FURY, 28 PERSONS ON BOARD,
   DISABLED AND ADRIFT VICINITY 36-15S 053-25W.
   VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP
   A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
   REPORTS TO ANY COASTAL RADIO STATION.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 1430/05, 1432/05 REFERS.

Reading this warning

Persons on board (POB): The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
Adrift: Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
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.
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.
Cancellation reference: A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROLANT: The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.

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

35 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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.

Man overboard in 34-20S 051-21W on 19 jun2016-06-20
Man overboard from vessel in 33-32.13S 052-28.14W on 07 mar2016-03-08
Man overboard in area bound by 36-52S 052-17W, 36-39S 051-30W, 37-07S 051-18W, 37-21S 052-06W2013-04-13
Man overboard in 37-03S 052-21W2013-04-12
Eight meter vessel capsized and adrift vicinity 36-55.1S 053-22.1W2013-01-19
Distress signal received on 406 mhz vicinity 35-16S 052-52W2011-03-24

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 2026-10-02 10:07Z; 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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