M/V al salam boccaccio 98, 1400 persons on board, sunk in 27-08N 034-31E
Red Sea · HYDROPAC 192/06
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2006-02-15 15:31Z
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) · PHONE CONVERSATION NAVAREA I; CNN/FOX NEWS; PVMM 03 FEB 06./. Issued 2006-02-03 15:08Z. 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
- Red Sea. The parsed report position is 27.133, 34.517. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- M/V al salam boccaccio 98, 1400 persons on board, unreported bur safaga to dubacancelled by this notice
These messages are connected by recorded cancellation references. The links establish relationships between notices; they do not by themselves confirm a single object, a continuous track, or recovery.
- HYDROPAC 188/062006-02-03 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 192/06 · this notice2006-02-03 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2006-02-03 15:08Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- PHONE CONVERSATION NAVAREA I; CNN/FOX NEWS; PVMM 03 FEB 06./
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA I · named as the source of this relay
- issued by
- PHONE CONVERSATION NAVAREA I
- sea
- Red Sea
- position
- 27.133, 34.517
- vessel
- M/V AL SALAM BOCCACCIO 98 · 2 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. M/V AL SALAM BOCCACCIO 98, 1400 PERSONS ON BOARD, SUNK IN 27-08N 034-31E. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO ANY COASTAL RADIO STATION. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 188/06.
Reading this warning
- Persons on board (POB)
- The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
- 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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROPAC
- The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
4 within 180 nm since 2006 · 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.
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 21:13Z; 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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