Distress signal received in 17-15S 168-00E
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 467/17
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2017-02-24 13:53Z
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 NOUMEA 090950Z FEB 17.. Issued 2017-02-09 10:02Z. 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
- Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -17.250, 168.000. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2017-02-09 10:02Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC NOUMEA 090950Z FEB 17.
- issued by
- MRCC NOUMEA
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -17.250, 168.000
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CORAL SEA. VANUATU. DNC 06. DISTRESS SIGNAL RECEIVED IN 17-15S 168-00E. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC NOUMEA, INMARSAT-C: 422799194, PHONE: 68 729 2332, 68 726 4772, FAX: 68 729 2303, E-MAIL: OPERATONS@MRCC.NC.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
37 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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.
- Rowboat maiwar, unreported2023-10-05
- Distress signal received in 18-11.13S 168-31.73E2023-04-30
- Distress signal received from 17 meter S/V caliope, white hull, in 18-00.00S 168-15.00E2022-09-10
- 4 meter vessel, one person on board, overdue2020-08-03
- Search and rescue operations in progress for vessel ambition one in 15-48S 167-21E2020-04-02
- Search and rescue operations in progress for vessel ambition one in 15-28.8S 167-12.6E2020-04-02
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 05:28Z; 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.