Incidents

Search and rescue operations: a. by vessels towing equipment in area between 45-45S 46-05S and 059-48W 060-17W

Western South Atlantic · HYDROLANT 672/18

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2018-03-03 04:11Z

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) · NAVAREA VI 102/18 261939Z FEB 18.. Issued 2018-02-26 19:42Z. 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
Western South Atlantic. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

These messages are connected by recorded cancellation references. The links establish relationships between notices; they do not by themselves confirm a single object, a continuous track, or recovery.

  1. HYDROLANT 474/182018-02-09 · Archived notice
  2. HYDROLANT 672/18 · this notice2018-02-26 · Archived notice
  3. HYDROLANT 755/182018-03-03 · Archived notice
Compare all 3 notices, changes and original texts →
issued
2018-02-26 19:42Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA VI 102/18 261939Z FEB 18.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA VI · named as the source of this relay
vessel
M/V VICTOR ANGELESCU · 2 messages
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN SOUTH ATLANTIC.
DNC 07.
1. SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS:
   A. BY VESSELS TOWING EQUIPMENT
      IN AREA BETWEEN
      45-45S 46-05S AND 059-48W 060-17W.
   B. M/V VICTOR ANGELESCU IN AREA BETWEEN
      42-15S 43-40S AND 059-15W 061-20W.
   FOUR MILE BERTH REQUESTED.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 474/18.

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.
Tow / towing
A vessel towing another vessel, a barge or a structure — slow, hard to manoeuvre, and with a long line between.
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.
Wide berth requested
Keep well clear — or, when a distance is given ("TWO MILE BERTH REQUESTED"), at least that far away.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROLANT
The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.

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Worldwide in the collected sources

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Record snapshot 2026-10-02 07:17Z; 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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