Incidents · medical

590 foot M/V explorer, 988 persons on board, two injured crewmen, disabled and adrift in 40-56.8N 177-54.7E

North Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 166/05

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2005-01-29 02:41Z

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 JUNEAU 262100 JAN 05.. Issued 2005-01-26 23:04Z. 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 40.947, 177.912. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

590 FOOT M/V EXPLORER, 988 PERSONS ON BOARD,
TWO INJURED CREWMEN, DISABLED AND ADRIFT
IN 40-56.8N 177-54.7E. VESSELS IN VICINITY
REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST
IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO RCC JUNEAU,
TELEX: 49615066, PHONE: 907 463 2000,

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.
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)

10 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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.

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Man overboard from vessel in 40-16.4N 175-00.4E2021-07-29
Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 38-19.9N 178-04.1E at 030841Z oct2019-10-03
Man overboard from M/V ocean joy in vicinity 38-58N 175-51E at 041700Z jul2018-07-05
1 in 39-54N 176-39E2007-10-05
Distress signal received on 243 mhz in 39-05N 176-53E at 280510Z apr2004-04-28

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 2026-10-02 01:26Z; source collection times vary.

Incidents

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