Vessel, numerous persons on board, disabled and adrift in 34-13.00N 017-44.00E at 030807Z oct
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin · HYDROLANT 2238/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-10-20 14:32Z
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 LIBYA 4532/23 030900Z OCT 23.. Issued 2023-10-03 09:14Z. 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
- Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin. The parsed report position is 34.217, 17.733. 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 Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin →
- issued
- 2023-10-03 09:14Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- JRCC LIBYA 4532/23 030900Z OCT 23.
- issued by
- JRCC LIBYA
- sea
- Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
- position
- 34.217, 17.733
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA. DNC 09. VESSEL, NUMEROUS PERSONS ON BOARD, DISABLED AND ADRIFT IN 34-13.00N 017-44.00E AT 030807Z OCT. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC ROME, INMARSAT-C: 424744220, PHONE: 3906 5908 4409, 390 6592 4145, FAX: 390 6592 2737, 3906 5908 4793, E-MAIL: ITMRCC@MIT.GOV.IT. OR JRCC LIBYA, PHONE: 2189 1034 9739, 2182 1444 9149, FAX: 2182 1360 6868, E-MAIL: LCG.OPS.RM@MOD.GOV.LY, LMRCC.1@MOD.GOV.LY, LMRCC.2@MOD.GOV.LY.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre)
- A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
- Inmarsat-C / SafetyNET
- The satellite system that carries NAVAREA warnings to ships at sea, and the terminal number rescue centres give for reports.
- RCC / JRCC (Rescue Coordination Centre)
- The centre that organises search and rescue in its region; warnings ask ships to send their reports there.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
270 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.
- S/V black bit, black hull, one person on board, unreported crete (35-18.60N 023-31.70E) to sicily (37-03.10N…2024-04-19
- Vessel, 32 persons on board, adrift in 34-12.20N 018-17.40E at 040315Z feb2024-02-04
- Vessel, 43 persons on board, adrift in 33-47.00N 018-19.00E at 130337Z nov2023-11-13
- Vessel, 43 persons on board, adrift in vicinity 33-47.00N 018-19.00E at 130337Z nov2023-11-13
- Vessel, numerous persons on board, unreported2023-09-27
- Vessel, white hull, 33 persons on board, requesting assistance in 36-09.00N 016-55.00E at 021220Z sep2023-09-02
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 02:38Z; 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.