Vessel knlaku taking on water vicinity 27-00S 033-33E at 031946Z dec
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 2387/08
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2008-12-03 21:23Z
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) · DURBAN RADIO 032035Z DEC 08.. Issued 2008-12-03 21:11Z. 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
- Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is -27.000, 33.550. 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
- Cancel HYDROPAC 2387/08 and this msg, assistance no longer neededlater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2008-12-03 21:11Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- DURBAN RADIO 032035Z DEC 08.
- issued by
- DURBAN RADIO
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -27.000, 33.550
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
VESSEL KNLAKU TAKING ON WATER VICINITY 27-00S 033-33E AT 031946Z DEC. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO DURBAN RADIO.
Reading this warning
- 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)
24 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.
- Aircraft overdue within 200 miles of st lucia (28-22-49S 032-24-22E) to richards bay (28-49-23S 031-59-31E)2018-06-09
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 28-26.38S 035-18.61E2018-02-10
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 28-26.68S 035-16.95E at 091924Z feb2018-02-09
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in vicinity 28-25.56S 035-22.32E at 091616Z feb2018-02-09
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz from 13 meter S/V sea saw vicinity 25-10S 033-36E2016-07-02
- 13 meter S/V quazami unreported2015-07-27
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 06:07Z; 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.