Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 30-00.4N 025-27.1W
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1734/09
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2009-10-24 09:33Z
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) · MRCC DELGADA 120004Z SEP 09.. Issued 2009-09-12 00:31Z. 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 30.007, -25.452. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2009-09-12 00:31Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC DELGADA 120004Z SEP 09.
- issued by
- MRCC DELGADA
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 30.007, -25.452
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED ON 406 MHZ IN 30-00.4N 025-27.1W. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC DELGADA.
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.
- MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre)
- A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
11 within 180 nm since 2005 · 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.
- Derelict S/V and liferaft adrift in vicinity 27-22N 024-06W at 251000Z nov2020-11-25
- Vessel ziza overdue2016-12-02
- Derelict liferaft adrift vicinity 32-12N 025-44W on 20 oct2014-10-20
- 36 foot S/V aspis, white hull, unreported caribbean sea to canary islands2014-06-19
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz from F/V lucky one in 30-54.7N 026-55.2W at 1739Z may2014-05-28
- Distress signal received in 31-59.0N 027-26.2W at 031155Z feb2013-02-03
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 2026-10-02 03:11Z; 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.