F/V bd 96286, seven persons on board, disabled and adrift due to engine damage in 10-50N 112-43E at 150001Z…
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 2343/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-08-17 13:18Z
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 VUNGTAU 170431Z AUG 12.. Issued 2012-08-17 06:13Z. 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
- South China Sea. The parsed report position is 10.833, 112.717. 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
- F/V bd 96286, seven persons on board, disabled and adrift due to engine damage in 11-04N 111-58E at 150001Z…cancelled by this notice
- Underwater operations 21 aug thru 15 sep, alternate 16 thru 20 sep by cableship decisive in areas: a. bound…later cancellation notice
These reports were linked by category and sea, with positions within 30 nautical miles and issue dates within 30 days of another report's recorded in-force span. Links can extend through other members, so the full group can cover a larger area or period. Proximity does not confirm that they describe one incident.
- HYDROPAC 2325/122012-08-16 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 2330/122012-08-16 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 2343/12 · this notice2012-08-17 · Archived notice
Current notices and reporting history in the South China Sea →
- issued
- 2012-08-17 06:13Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC VUNGTAU 170431Z AUG 12.
- issued by
- MRCC VUNGTAU
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 10.833, 112.717
- vessel
- F/V BD · 290 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH CHINA SEA. 1. F/V BD 96286, SEVEN PERSONS ON BOARD, DISABLED AND ADRIFT DUE TO ENGINE DAMAGE IN 10-50N 112-43E AT 150001Z AUG. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC VUNGTAU, PHONE: 64 385 0950, FAX: 64 381 0353. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 2330/12.
Reading this warning
- Persons on board (POB)
- The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
- Adrift
- Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
- 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.
- 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)
603 within 180 nm since 1998 · 5 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.
- Man overboard from F/V bd 93959 ts in 13-09.00N 111-26.00E at 090700Z aug2026-08-17
- M/V khoi nguyen 18 flooding and sinking in 09-00.00N 112-00.00E at 211538Z jul2026-08-17
- M/V fenghuang, 23 persons on board, disabled and adrift in vicinity 11-36.00N 111-49.00E at 120314Z apr2026-04-12
- Man overboard from F/V bd 99146 ts in 09-09.00N 114-32.00E at 130315Z jan2026-01-13
- F/V py 96202 ts, five persons on board, sank in 10-22.50N 114-28.61E at 272352Z nov2025-11-28
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in vicinity 09-49.74N 114-24.72E at 070145Z may2024-05-07
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 2026-10-02 01:22Z; 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.