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Distress signal received on 243MHZ vicinity: a. 12-09.5N 132-24.5E at 081504Z oct

Philippine Sea · HYDROPAC 1747/03

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2003-10-10 00:30Z

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) · GUAMSARCOORD 081507Z OCT 03; GUAMSARCOORD 081424Z OCT 03. Issued 2003-10-08 17:51Z. 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: Philippine Sea. The parsed report position is 11.773, 133.185. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED ON 243MHZ VICINITY:
A. 12-09.5N 132-24.5E AT 081504Z OCT.
B. 11-23.2N 133-57.7E AT 081421Z OCT.
VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP
LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO RCC
GUAM.

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.

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

199 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 09-15.00N 132-11.00E2024-02-05
Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 10-16.10N 134-04.10E2024-01-12
Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 10-53.00N 133-57.00E at 251025Z jun2023-06-26
20 meter F/V sheng feng no2023-02-20
Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 09-29.10N 133-26.00E at 191747Z feb2023-02-19
Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 11-24.00N 130-45.00E at 091219Z dec2022-12-09

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 07:59Z; 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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