Incidents · distress

Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 01-48.53N 084-53.20W

North Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 1653/18

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2018-05-11 11:57Z

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) · RCC ALAMEDA 271515Z APR 18.. Issued 2018-04-27 16:37Z. 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: North Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is 1.809, -84.887. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC.
DNC 07.
DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED ON 406 MHZ IN
01-48.53N 084-53.20W.
VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP
LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
REPORTS TO RCC ALAMEDA,
TELEX: 230172343,
PHONE: 510 437 3701,
E-MAIL: RCCALAMEDA1@USCG.MIL.

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.
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.
RCC / JRCC (Rescue Coordination Centre): The centre that organises search and rescue in its region; warnings ask ships to send their reports there.

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

29 within 180 nm since 2010 · 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.

Distress signal received in vicinity 01-28.17N 086-09.50W2023-06-14
Vessel disabled and adrift, four persons on board in 03-29N 083-01W2021-03-13
Distress signal received from vessel in vicinity 03-36N 082-44W2020-08-17
F/V capitan bismark unreported2018-02-23
Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 01-54.5N 085-46.5W2017-08-31
Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 02-46.1N 083-53.3W2016-06-28

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 00:51Z; 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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