Distress signal from F/V in 06-43S 098-00E at 250100Z feb
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 372/10
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2010-02-26 14:54Z
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) · AUSSAR 1335/10 251138Z FEB 10.. Issued 2010-02-26 06:31Z. 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 -6.717, 98.000. 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 1894/09(22)later cancellation 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 327/102010-02-18 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 334/102010-02-19 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 372/10 · this notice2010-02-26 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 376/102010-02-26 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2010-02-26 06:31Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- AUSSAR 1335/10 251138Z FEB 10.
- issued by
- AUSSAR
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -6.717, 98.000
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORTHEASTERN INDIAN OCEAN. DISTRESS SIGNAL FROM F/V IN 06-43S 098-00E AT 250100Z FEB. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO RCC AUSTRALIA, PHONE: 612 6230 6811, FAX: 612 6230 6868, E-MAIL: RCCAUS@AMSA.GOV.AU.
Reading this warning
- Distress signal received
- A rescue centre has received an alert — from a beacon, a radio call or a satellite terminal — and is asking ships to look.
- 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.
- RCC / JRCC (Rescue Coordination Centre)
- The centre that organises search and rescue in its region; warnings ask ships to send their reports there.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
8 within 180 nm since 2003 · 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 in vicinity 05-19.24S 098-16.41E at 010249Z may2021-05-01
- Distress signal received vicinity 09-17.52S 098-05.58E at 171418Z jan2015-01-17
- Distress signal received from M/V kalaminja in 09-15.42S 096-25.20E at 220402Z dec2014-12-22
- 26 foot S/V seastar, white hull, one person on board, overdue falmouth (50-09N 005-04W) to perth (31-57S…2012-02-27
- 26 foot S/V seastar, white hull, one person on board, overdue falmouth (50-09N 005-04W) to perth (31-57S…2012-02-27
- F/V, green hull, unreported2010-05-08
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 2026-10-03 17:12Z; 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.