M/V silvia saint vincent in 08-55N 060-27E at 290700Z jul reports crewman with sudden visual impairment…
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 702/99
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 1999-08-02 07:20Z
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) · RCC PIRAEUS AOR-E EGC #231 291122Z JUL 99. Issued 1999-07-29 13:43Z. 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
- Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 8.917, 60.450. 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
- Crewman with visual impairment requiring medical assistance on board M/V silvia saint vincent in 12-42N…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 702/99 · this notice1999-07-29 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 715/991999-08-02 · Archived notice
- issued
- 1999-07-29 13:43Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- RCC PIRAEUS AOR-E EGC #231 291122Z JUL 99
- issued by
- RCC PIRAEUS AOR-E EGC
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 8.917, 60.450
- vessel
- M/V SILVIA SAINT VINCENT · 2 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
M/V SILVIA SAINT VINCENT IN 08-55N 060-27E AT 290700Z JUL REPORTS CREWMAN WITH SUDDEN VISUAL IMPAIRMENT REQUIRING MEDICAL ASSISTANCE. ANY VESSEL IN VICINITY WITH A HELICOPTER DETACHMENT THAT CAN PROVIDE A MEDEVAC, REQUESTED TO ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO RCC PIRAEUS, TELEX: 601 211588 RCC GR, 601 211254 RCC GR, PHONE: 301 4112500, 301 4220772, FAX: 301 4132398, 301 4220466.
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.
- 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.
- 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)
18 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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 in 10-45.00N 061-30.00E2024-03-15
- 12 meter S/V exultet II, white hull, seven persons on board, overdue sri lanka (06-56.00N 079-52.00E) to…2023-03-22
- Man overboard from M/V galini in vicinity 10-57.1N 061-33.4E at 262200Z feb2022-02-27
- M/V faneromeni reports fire and person requiring medical assistance in 11-02-01N 060-43-59E2020-08-19
- F/V yuang tai 216, 30 persons on board, unreported2020-06-06
- 36 foot S/V intrepid, white hull, three persons on board, requesting assistance in vicinity of kochi…2020-03-07
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 2026-10-04 03:12Z; 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) →
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