Incidents · man_overboard

Man overboard from F/V st 90756 ts in 09-21N 106-21E at 261900Z aug

South China Sea · HYDROPAC 2591/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2016-10-05 14:45Z

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 VIETNAM 270540Z AUG 16.. Issued 2016-08-27 06:20Z. 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 9.350, 106.350. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

SOUTH CHINA SEA.
VIETNAM.
DNC 11.
MAN OVERBOARD FROM F/V ST 90756 TS
IN 09-21N 106-21E AT 261900Z AUG. VESSELS
IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP
LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO
MRCC VIETNAM, FAX: 843 1398 1615,
E-MAIL: HPLES-GMDSS@HPLES.COM.VN.

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.
Man overboard: Someone has gone into the water from a vessel; ships in the area are asked to look for them.
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.
GMDSS: The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System: the internationally agreed set of radio services ships use for distress alerting and safety broadcasts.

All warning terms →

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

866 within 180 nm since 1999 · 9 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

Dangerous wreck in 10-22.31N 107-46.96EWrecks · 104.6 nm
Sunken wreck exists in 10-22.31N 107-46.96EWrecks · 104.6 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 02:32Z; 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.