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F/V ceara, six persons on board, adrift vicinity 24-50S 044-57W

South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 870/04

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2004-05-24 06:20Z

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 V 466/04 210030Z MAY 04. Issued 2004-05-21 04:00Z. 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 -24.833, -44.950. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

F/V CEARA, SIX PERSONS ON BOARD, ADRIFT VICINITY
24-50S 044-57W. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED
TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
REPORTS TO ANY COASTAL RADIO STATION.

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.

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Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)

270 within 180 nm since 1999 · 1 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.

Man overboard from vessel in 24-34.60S 045-25.70W on 14 aug2026-08-16
Distress signal received from vessel in 24-37.00S 045-31.00W on 30 apr2024-04-30
Distress signal received from M/V bwek anholt in 25-58.00S 045-15.00W on 22 mar2024-03-22
Man overboard from vessel in 25-16.54S 046-36.77W on 08 jan2024-01-09
Man overboard from vessel in 24-06.28S 045-07.53W at 300001Z dec2023-12-30
Vessel sinking2023-11-20

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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

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

Record snapshot 2026-09-30 04:27Z; 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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