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Three men overboard from capsized F/V vicinity 14-23N 042-04E at 290930Z mar

Red Sea · HYDROPAC 1075/15

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2015-03-29 17:16Z

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 1/15 290957Z MAR 15.. Issued 2015-03-29 11:16Z. 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
Red Sea. The parsed report position is 14.383, 42.067. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

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  1. HYDROPAC 1075/15 · this notice2015-03-29 · Archived notice
  2. HYDROPAC 1078/152015-03-29 · Archived notice
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issued
2015-03-29 11:16Z
status
Archived notice
authority
MSCHOA REQ 1/15 290957Z MAR 15.
issued by
MSCHOA REQ
sea
Red Sea
position
14.383, 42.067
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

RED SEA.
DNC 10.
THREE MEN OVERBOARD FROM CAPSIZED F/V VICINITY
14-23N 042-04E AT 290930Z MAR. VESSELS IN VICINITY
REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
REPORTS TO MSCHOA, PHONE: 44 019 2395 8547,
E-MAIL: JOCWATCHKEEPER@MSCHOA.ORG.

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.
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.

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

12 within 180 nm since 1998 · 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

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 03:17Z; 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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