Distress signal received from vessel, white and red hull, three persons onboard, in vicinity 43-00N 004-00E…
Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin · HYDROLANT 3996/19
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2020-01-17 13:43Z
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 LA GARDE 300101Z DEC 19.. Issued 2019-12-30 01:20Z. 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 - Western Basin. The parsed report position is 43.000, 4.000. 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 - Western Basin →
- issued
- 2019-12-30 01:20Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC LA GARDE 300101Z DEC 19.
- issued by
- MRCC LA GARDE
- sea
- Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin
- position
- 43.000, 4.000
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA. FRANCE. DNC 08. DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED FROM VESSEL, WHITE AND RED HULL, THREE PERSONS ONBOARD, IN VICINITY 43-00N 004-00E AT 300100Z DEC. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC LA GARDE, TELEX: 430024, PHONE: 334 9461 1616, FAX: 334 9427 1149, E-MAIL: LAGARDE@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.
- 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.
- 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)
56 within 180 nm since 1996 · 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.
- 11 meter S/V invictus, white hull, three persons on board, overdue minorca (39-58.00N 004-05.00E) to argeles…2024-03-28
- Ten meter S/V leviathan, white color, three persons on board, overdue frejus (43-25.16N 006-44.73E) to…2024-03-15
- Six meter M/V le mohican II, white hull, one person on board, overdue port of menton (43-46.42N 007-30.57E)2023-11-23
- M/V timeless, seven persons on board, disabled and requesting assistance in 40-50N 006-35E2022-04-19
- 11M meter S/V physalie, white hull, one person on board, overdue canet en roussilon (42-42.4N 003-00.5E) to…2018-10-06
- Eight meter S/V baloo, white and green hull, one person on board, overdue gruissan (43-06-28N 003-05-20E) to…2018-07-26
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 2026-09-24 23:02Z; 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.