F/V vila vila, four persons on board, unreported vicinity 16-46S 072-50W
South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 393/01
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2001-03-17 14:46Z
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) · NAVAREA XVI 93/01 132331Z MAR 01. Issued 2001-03-14 05:50Z. 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 -16.767, -72.833. 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
- F/V vila vila, three persons on board, unreported vicinity 16-40S 073-25Wcancelled by this notice
- Cancel HYDROPAC 393/01later cancellation notice
These reports were linked by category and sea, with positions within 30 nautical miles and issue dates within 30 days of another report's recorded in-force span. Links can extend through other members, so the full group can cover a larger area or period. Proximity does not confirm that they describe one incident.
- HYDROPAC 378/012001-03-12 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 393/01 · this notice2001-03-14 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 413/012001-03-17 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 483/012001-03-30 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 653/012001-04-30 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 687/012001-05-06 · Archived notice
Current notices and reporting history in the South Pacific Ocean →
- issued
- 2001-03-14 05:50Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA XVI 93/01 132331Z MAR 01
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XVI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South Pacific Ocean
- position
- -16.767, -72.833
- vessel
- F/V VILA VILA · 2 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. F/V VILA VILA, FOUR PERSONS ON BOARD, UNREPORTED VICINITY 16-46S 072-50W. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO ANY COASTAL RADIO STATION. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 378/01.
Reading this warning
- Persons on board (POB)
- The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
26 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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.
- Vessel juan I, multiple persons on board, disabled and adrift in vicinity 18-33.0S 071-25.5W2021-09-12
- Fishing vessel capsized and adrift in 16-44-33S 073-31-56W2020-08-25
- Search and rescue operations for ten meter F/V rances, blue and red hull, in area bound by 15-56S 075-59W,…2016-12-02
- Search and rescue operations in area bound by 16-12.0S 075-21.0W, 16-54.5S 074-47.0W, 17-26.0S 075-27.5W,…2016-11-22
- F/V geraldine, two persons on board, disabled and adrift in 16-23S 074-56W2012-10-31
- Vessel lopez I unreported2012-06-16
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 2026-09-24 21:58Z; 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.