M/V CAILAN2/3WLA, 24 persons on board, disabled and adrift in 07-34N 110-03E
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 787/11
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2011-03-19 09:16Z
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 131736Z MAR 11.. Issued 2011-03-13 18:06Z. 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 China Sea. The parsed report position is 7.567, 110.050. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Current notices and reporting history in the South China Sea →
- issued
- 2011-03-13 18:06Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC VUNGTAU 131736Z MAR 11.
- issued by
- MRCC VUNGTAU
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 7.567, 110.050
- vessel
- M/V CAILAN2
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH CHINA SEA. M/V CAILAN2/3WLA, 24 PERSONS ON BOARD, DISABLED AND ADRIFT IN 07-34N 110-03E. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC VUNGTAU OR ANY COASTAL RADIO STATION.
Reading this warning
- Persons on board (POB)
- The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
- Adrift
- Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
553 within 180 nm since 1998 · 3 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.
- F/V bv 99079 ts, 15 persons on board, taking on water in 09-43.00N 108-33.00E at 240530Z aug2026-08-24
- M/V khoi nguyen 18 flooding and sinking in 09-00.00N 112-00.00E at 211538Z jul2026-08-17
- Distress signal received from vessel in 08-45.00N 107-45.00E2025-11-20
- Man overboard from F/V bv 92567 ts in 07-38.00N 107-31.00E2025-02-05
- Man overboard from F/V bv 94477 ts in 08-52.00N 107-53.00E at 150930Z sep2024-09-16
- Man overboard from F/V qng 95307 ts in 07-37.00N 112-05.00E at 212350Z apr2024-04-23
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
- Oil rig reported to exists in 07-47.5N 108-12.0EWrecks · 110.9 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 11:51Z; 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.