Distress signal received on 243 mhz vicinity 38-48S 143-48E at 041049Z sep
Bass Strait · HYDROPAC 1722/08
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2008-09-06 09:05Z
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) · AUSSAR 7301/08 041105Z SEP 08.. Issued 2008-09-04 12:59Z. 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
- Bass Strait. The parsed report position is -38.800, 143.800. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2008-09-04 12:59Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- AUSSAR 7301/08 041105Z SEP 08.
- issued by
- AUSSAR
- sea
- Bass Strait
- position
- -38.800, 143.800
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED ON 243 MHZ VICINITY 38-48S 143-48E AT 041049Z SEP. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO RCC AUSTRALIA, PHONE: 6 126 230 6811, FAX: 6 126 230 6868, E-MAIL: RCCAUS@AMSA.GOV.AU.
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.
- RCC / JRCC (Rescue Coordination Centre)
- The centre that organises search and rescue in its region; warnings ask ships to send their reports there.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
61 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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 on 406 mhz in vicinity 38-33.20S 145-19.10E at 280713Z oct2023-10-28
- 15 meter S/V, three persons on board, on fire and sinking in 38-55.87S 146-31.00E at 230234Z oct2023-10-23
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz from nine meter S/V la balsa in 39-04.73S 146-10.07E at 210442Z mar2023-03-21
- Eight meter M/V larus, two persons on board, sinking and crew abandoning ship in 39-10.00S 146-16.40E at…2023-03-20
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in vicinity 38-20.80S 140-38.80E at 312224Z dec2022-12-31
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz from 25 meter F/V empress pearl in vicinity 40-55.27S 144-04.87E at…2022-10-30
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
- Great australian bightCable ops · 43.3 nm
- Special purpose vessel dependable / kdej / 367137000 conducting cable lay operations 10NM either side of…Other · 43.3 nm
- Six meter buoy, yellow, established in 38-47.62S 142-37.77ENav aids · 54.8 nm
- 1 X 6M yellow surface buoy established in position 38-47.62S 142-37.77E 2.5NM clearance requestedNav aids · 54.8 nm
- 2 X 6M yellow surface buoys fl.white 3S temporarily established within 1.0NM of position 38-47.19S…Nav aids · 56.2 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 14:28Z; 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.