Distress signal received in 05-43S 120-58E at 131610Z jun
Banda Sea · HYDROPAC 1711/13
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2013-06-22 11:45Z
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 GRIS NEZ 131634Z JUN 13.. Issued 2013-06-13 17:09Z. 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
- Banda Sea. The parsed report position is -5.717, 120.967. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2013-06-13 17:09Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC GRIS NEZ 131634Z JUN 13.
- issued by
- MRCC GRIS NEZ
- sea
- Banda Sea
- position
- -5.717, 120.967
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
INDONESIA. GULF OF BONE. DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED IN 05-43S 120-58E AT 131610Z JUN. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC GRIS NEZ, TELEX: 42130680, PHONE: 333 2187 2187, FAX: 333 2187 7855.
Reading this warning
- 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.
- MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre)
- A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
38 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.
- F/V dewi jaya 2 reported sinking in vicinity 06-29.60S 119-40.00E at 090300Z mar2024-03-12
- Vessel km twindo 388, 27 persons on board, sank in 06-54.45S 122-13.01E at 242130Z sep2023-09-27
- M/V km rahmat baru, four persons on board, disabled and adrift due to engine failure in 05-24.00S 123-19.30E2022-03-02
- Distress signal received in 06-50.8S 118-56.2E at 271105Z jun2021-06-27
- Vessel, 11 persons on board, unreported2020-12-24
- Tug boat imanuel, 12 persons on board, unreported2020-08-06
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 2026-10-03 21:17Z; 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) →
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.