Incidents

Search and rescue operations vicinity 14-00S 178-36W

South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 1333/15

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2015-04-26 07:55Z

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) · MRCC NOUMEA 202356Z APR 15.. Issued 2015-04-21 10:24Z. 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 Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is -14.000, -178.600. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the South Pacific Ocean →

issued
2015-04-21 10:24Z
status
Archived notice
authority
MRCC NOUMEA 202356Z APR 15.
issued by
MRCC NOUMEA
sea
South Pacific Ocean
position
-14.000, -178.600
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

SOUTH PACIFIC.
SAMOA.
DNC 06.
SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS VICINITY 14-00S 178-36W.
CAUTION ADVISED.

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.

All warning terms →

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

5 within 180 nm since 2002 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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 02:54Z; 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.