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Distress signal received from M/V card to fallow in 02-28.4S 042-40.4W

South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1467/99

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 1999-08-03 06:40Z

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 V 560/99 AOR-E EGC #342 150358Z JUL 99. Issued 1999-07-15 06:10Z. 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 -2.473, -42.673. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

1. DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED FROM M/V CARD TO FALLOW
   IN 02-28.4S 042-40.4W. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED
   TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
   REPORTS TO NAVAREA V COORDINATOR.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 1417/99.

Reading this warning

Distress signal received: A rescue centre has received an alert — from a beacon, a radio call or a satellite terminal — and is asking ships to look.
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.
NAVAREA: One of the 21 ocean areas of the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service, each with a coordinator that broadcasts long-range warnings.
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)

69 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 from vessel in 02-33.82S 041-16.08W on 21 mar2024-03-25
Man overboard from vessel in 02-21.50S 040-43.50W2024-03-21
Vessel michael I overdue, two persons onboard2024-03-15
Man overboard from vessel in vicinity 02-39.78S 041-19.28W on 23 feb2024-02-26
Man overboard from vessel in vicinity 01-11.90S 044-55.95W at 072120Z sep2023-09-08
Person missing from vessel2022-12-07

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

Depths less than charted in areas bound by: a. 02-10.17S 044-09.21W, 02-10.31S 044-09.39W, 02-10.35S…Wrecks · 90.7 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 13:12Z; 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) →

Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.