Incidents · disabled

26 foot S/V elbow grease, one person on board, disabled and adrift due to lost rudder in 34-30.34S 017-10.23E

South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 296/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2016-02-07 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) · CAPE TOWN RADIO 021059Z FEB 16.. Issued 2016-02-02 13:00Z. 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 -34.506, 17.171. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

EASTERN SOUTH ATLANTIC.
SOUTH AFRICA.
DNC 01, DNC 02.
26 FOOT S/V ELBOW GREASE, ONE PERSON ON BOARD,
DISABLED AND ADRIFT DUE TO LOST RUDDER IN
34-30.34S 017-10.23E. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED
TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
REPORTS TO CAPE TOWN RADIO,
PHONE: 272 1551 0747, 272 1551 2617,
E-MAIL: MARITIMERADIO@IXMAIL.CO.ZA.

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.
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.

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

23 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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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 04:34Z; 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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