Person with injury requiring medical evacuation from palmerston island (18-03.37S 163-11.49W) to aitutaki…
South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 2748/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-09-15 14:30Z
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) · MNZ 101/23 260947Z AUG 23.. Issued 2023-08-26 11:34Z. 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 Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is -19.380, -160.920. 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 South Pacific Ocean →
- issued
- 2023-08-26 11:34Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MNZ 101/23 260947Z AUG 23.
- issued by
- MNZ
- sea
- South Pacific Ocean
- position
- -19.380, -160.920
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH PACIFIC. COOK ISLANDS. DNC 06. PERSON WITH INJURY REQUIRING MEDICAL EVACUATION FROM PALMERSTON ISLAND (18-03.37S 163-11.49W) TO AITUTAKI (18-51.00S 159-47.40W) OR RAROTONGA (21-14.10S 159-46.68W). VESSELS IN VICINITY ABLE TO PROVIDE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE REQUESTED TO ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO TAUPO MARITIME RADIO OR MARITIME OPERATIONS NEW ZEALAND, INMARSAT-C: 451200067, E-MAIL: MARITIME@KORDIA.CO.NZ.
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.
- 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.
- Assist if possible
- The second half of the standard rescue request: ships able to help are asked to do so.
- Inmarsat-C / SafetyNET
- The satellite system that carries NAVAREA warnings to ships at sea, and the terminal number rescue centres give for reports.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
12 within 180 nm since 2007 · 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 from F/V ping tai rong 39 in 16-53.9S 162-01.0W2020-08-12
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz from M/V shen gang fa 715 in vicinity 16-29.6S 160-17.1W2017-06-19
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in vicinity 16-29.6S 160-17.1W2017-06-19
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz vicinity 18-45.98S 161-03.47W2016-09-06
- 11.4 meter vessel rhombus, five persons on board, unreported tahiti (17-40S 149-25W) to niue (19-03S 169-55W)2015-09-20
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz from M/V tokelau vicinity 21-12S 159-46W2012-12-13
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 2026-09-29 12:01Z; 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.