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Nine meter S/V blue peter, blue hull, one person on board, disabled and adrift in 40-12N 007-16E

Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin · HYDROLANT 765/04

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2004-05-08 06:40Z

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) · MRSC CAGLIARI AOR-E EGC# 725 05 MAY 04; NAVAREA VI 132/04 051430Z MAY 04; WZ 599/04 051359Z MAY 04. Issued 2004-05-05 16:46Z. 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 40.200, 7.267. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

1. NINE METER S/V BLUE PETER, BLUE HULL, ONE PERSON
   ON BOARD, DISABLED AND ADRIFT IN 40-12N 007-16E.
   VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP
   LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO
   MRSC CAGLIARI, PHONE: 3907 0605 17305.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 467/04(23).
3. CANCEL HYDROLANT 702/04(37), OPERATIONS SUSPENDED.

Reading this warning

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.
MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre): A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
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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Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)

122 within 180 nm since 2001 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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

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Record snapshot 2026-10-03 03:46Z; source collection times vary.

Incidents

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