Incidents · capsize

Six persons overboard from vessel, white hull, capsized and adrift in 47-56.47S 045-34.47W

South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 709/19

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2019-03-20 14:12Z

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 96/19 060020Z MAR 19.. Issued 2019-03-06 00:21Z. 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 -47.941, -45.575. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

WESTERN SOUTH ATLANTIC.
DNC 01.
SIX PERSONS OVERBOARD FROM VESSEL, WHITE HULL,
CAPSIZED AND ADRIFT IN 47-56.47S 045-34.47W.
VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP
LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
REPORTS TO NAVAREA VI,
INMARSAT-C: 470100125,
PHONE: 5429 3248 7150, 5411 4301 2249,
5429 3248 7162, 5411 4301 0061, 5411 4301 0067,
EXT 4028, FAX: 5411 4301 2249,
E-MAIL: snautica@hidro.gov.ar,
shn_orgint@hidro.gov.ar.

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.
Man overboard: Someone has gone into the water from a vessel; ships in the area are asked to look for them.
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.
NAVAREA: One of the 21 ocean areas of the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service, each with a coordinator that broadcasts long-range warnings.
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)

5 within 180 nm since 2006 · 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.

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Man overboard in 47-10.88S 047-53.73W at 211820Z dec2013-12-22
Distress signals received on 121.5 and 406MHZ in: a. 48-15S 145-00W2006-11-13

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 06:37Z; 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.