Incidents · overdue

23 foot F/V anais, blue hull, three persons on board, overdue from gros ilet (14-04N 060-57W)

Caribbean Sea · HYDROLANT 3395/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2017-01-04 13:54Z

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 FORT DE FRANCE 161953Z DEC 16.. Issued 2016-12-16 20:07Z. 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: Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 14.067, -60.950. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA.
SAINT LUCIA.
DNC 14.
23 FOOT F/V ANAIS, BLUE HULL, THREE PERSONS
ON BOARD, OVERDUE FROM GROS ILET (14-04N 060-57W).
VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP
LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO
MRCC FORT DE FRANCE, INMARSAT-C: 422799024,
TELEX: 42912008, PHONE: 5965 9670 9292,
FAX: 5965 9663 2450, E-MAIL: ANTILLES@MRCCFR.EU.

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.
Overdue vessel: A vessel has not arrived when expected and has not been heard from; ships are asked to look out for it.
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.
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)

196 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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

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

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Worldwide in the collected sources

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 01:57Z; 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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