Distress signal received from vessel in vicinity 12-12N 056-18E at 091300Z jan
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 101/18
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2018-01-26 18:22Z
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) · MSCHOA REQ 1/18 091405Z JAN 18.. Issued 2018-01-09 15:16Z. 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
- Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 12.200, 56.300. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2018-01-09 15:16Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MSCHOA REQ 1/18 091405Z JAN 18.
- issued by
- MSCHOA REQ
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 12.200, 56.300
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA. SUQUTRA. DNC 10. DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED FROM VESSEL IN VICINITY 12-12N 056-18E AT 091300Z JAN. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MSCHOA REQ, PHONE: 9715 0552 3215, E-MAIL: UKMTO@EIM.AE.
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.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
16 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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.
- M/V rama 2 sinking in 13-48.56N 055-51.08E2017-06-26
- M/V fernando reports crewman requiring medical assistance vicinity 13-54N 054-39E2016-09-11
- M/V fernando reports crewman requiring medical assistance in 14-55N 056-12E2016-09-10
- M/V fernando reports crewman requiring medical assistance in 14-58N 056-40E2016-09-10
- Four meter vessel, five persons on board, unreported2013-09-18
- Man overboard from M/V margrethe maersk vicinity of trackline between 11-19N 062-00E and 12-57N 056-33E2008-08-14
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 01:22Z; 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.