25000 ton M/V kamala, 23 persons on board, on fire in 30-39.8N 124-35.8E at 110230Z jul
Eastern China Sea · HYDROPAC 2285/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-07-18 10:20Z
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) · JAPAN COAST GUARD 110400Z JUL 15.. Issued 2015-07-11 04:25Z. 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
- Eastern China Sea. The parsed report position is 30.663, 124.597. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Current notices and reporting history in the Eastern China Sea →
- issued
- 2015-07-11 04:25Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- JAPAN COAST GUARD 110400Z JUL 15.
- issued by
- JAPAN COAST GUARD
- sea
- Eastern China Sea
- position
- 30.663, 124.597
- vessel
- M/V KAMALA
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EAST CHINA SEA. DNC 23. 25000 TON M/V KAMALA, 23 PERSONS ON BOARD, ON FIRE IN 30-39.8N 124-35.8E AT 110230Z JUL. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO JAPAN COAST GUARD, PHONE: 819 9255 4999.
Reading this warning
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
39 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: at 251214Z jul in vicinity 30-36N 124-00E2020-07-25
- Distress signal received from M/V nord pyxis on 406 mhz in 32-40.5N 124-03.8E at 021104Z mar 192019-03-02
- Distress signal received at 211137Z feb in 31-48-02N 125-43-00E2019-02-21
- Distress signal received in vicinity 31-10.6N 127-35.3E at 050732Z dec2018-12-05
- Distress signal received from vessel ocean topaz in 31-40N 126-59E at 042347Z sep2018-09-05
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 30-11-47N 127-41-46E at 282019Z aug2018-08-28
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
- Large buoy reported to exist in 31-00N 124-00EWrecks · 36.8 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 23:15Z; 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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