Incidents · distress

Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 27-22N 061-24W at 071423Z jul

North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1663/15

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2015-07-11 09:40Z

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) · RCC NORFOLK 071525Z JUL 15.. Issued 2015-07-07 16:12Z. 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: North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 27.367, -61.400. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
DNC 16.
DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED ON 406 MHZ IN 27-22N 061-24W
AT 071423Z JUL. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED
TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
REPORTS TO RCC NORFOLK, INMARSAT-C: 430370670,
PHONE: 757 398 6231, FAX: 757 398 6392,
E-MAIL: D05-SMB-D5CC@USCG.MIL.

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.
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.
Date-time group (DTG): A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
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.
Inmarsat-C / SafetyNET: The satellite system that carries NAVAREA warnings to ships at sea, and the terminal number rescue centres give for reports.

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

19 within 180 nm since 2010 · 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.

Distress signal received in 27-30.00N 064-15.00W2024-04-01
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Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 24-57.50N 061-11.60W2023-09-29
Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz in 26-31.00N 063-46.00W2023-08-31
Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 28-15.00N 064-30.00W2022-11-09
Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 30-08.0N 061-30.7W2018-10-05

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 05:08Z; 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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