F/V qng 95712, nine persons on board, aground in 08-21N 117-21E at 171400Z feb
Sulu Sea · HYDROPAC 458/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-02-25 10:28Z
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 VUNGTAU 171930Z FEB 12.. Issued 2012-02-17 19:52Z. 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
- Sulu Sea. The parsed report position is 8.350, 117.350. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2012-02-17 19:52Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC VUNGTAU 171930Z FEB 12.
- issued by
- MRCC VUNGTAU
- sea
- Sulu Sea
- position
- 8.350, 117.350
- vessel
- F/V QNG · 137 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH CHINA SEA. BUGSUK ISLAND-NORTH COAST. F/V QNG 95712, NINE PERSONS ON BOARD, AGROUND IN 08-21N 117-21E AT 171400Z FEB. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC VUNGTAU, PHONE: 64 385 0950, FAX: 64 381 0353.
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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
59 within 180 nm since 2000 · 1 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.
- Man overboard from F/V bd 99146 ts in 09-09.00N 114-32.00E at 130315Z jan2026-01-13
- F/V qng 90729 ts suffered collision in 08-00.00N 115-02.00E at 212000Z apr2024-04-22
- Distress signal received from F/V bd 96425 ts, four persons onboard, in 08-43.00N 114-49.00E at 261742Z dec2023-12-26
- Distress signal received from vessel in 08-50.00N 114-25.00E at 230300Z oct2023-10-23
- F/V py 92629 ts, four persons on board, disabled and adrift due to engine failure in 10-37.00N 115-26.00E at…2023-10-05
- Distress signal received in 06-16.80N 116-06.98E2023-07-22
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 19:53Z; 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) →
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