M/V black watch reports crew member with appendicitis requiring medical assistance vicinity 01-46.7N 054-07.8E
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 320/02
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2002-04-05 12:20Z
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) · JRCC STAVANGER IOR EGC 951 200745Z FEB 02; GUAMSARCOORD 200107Z FEB 02. Issued 2002-02-20 08:10Z. 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 1.778, 54.130. 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
- 44 foot M/V kayu 2, white hull, overdue saipan to guguancancelled by this notice
These messages are connected by recorded cancellation references. The links establish relationships between notices; they do not by themselves confirm a single object, a continuous track, or recovery.
- HYDROPAC 314/022002-02-19 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 320/02 · this notice2002-02-20 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2002-02-20 08:10Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- JRCC STAVANGER IOR EGC 951 200745Z FEB 02; GUAMSARCOORD 200107Z FEB 02
- issued by
- JRCC STAVANGER IOR EGC
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- 1.778, 54.130
- vessel
- M/V BLACK WATCH
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. M/V BLACK WATCH REPORTS CREW MEMBER WITH APPENDICITIS REQUIRING MEDICAL ASSISTANCE VICINITY 01-46.7N 054-07.8E. VESSELS IN VICINITY ABLE TO PROVIDE MEDEVAC REQUESTED TO ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO VESSEL, INMARSAT-C: 43111 6610, PHONE: 475 184 8630, 472 239 6380 OR JRCC STAVANGER. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 314/02(81), VESSEL LOCATED.
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.
- 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.
- RCC / JRCC (Rescue Coordination Centre)
- The centre that organises search and rescue in its region; warnings ask ships to send their reports there.
- 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)
6 within 180 nm since 2002 · 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.
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- F/V chun ying destroyed by fire in 01-13.28N 055-24.17E2013-06-28
- F/V chun ying destroyed by fire in 01-13.28N 055-24.17E2013-06-26
- 525 ton F/V chun ying, 31 persons on board, possibly hijacked2013-06-26
- M/V regal unity reports crewman with appendicitis requiring medical assistance in 04-45N 053-52E at 181358Z…2002-05-18
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 03:37Z; 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.