M/V regal unity reports crewman with appendicitis requiring medical assistance in 04-45N 053-52E at 181358Z…
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 926/02
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2002-05-20 07:40Z
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) · AUSSAR 3774/02 IOR EGC#27670 181401Z MAY 02. Issued 2002-05-18 15:10Z. 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
- Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is 4.750, 53.867. 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
- 20 foot vessel, four persons on board, overdue pulap atoll to weno island, truk atolllater 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 926/02 · this notice2002-05-18 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 935/022002-05-20 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2002-05-18 15:10Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- AUSSAR 3774/02 IOR EGC#27670 181401Z MAY 02
- issued by
- AUSSAR
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- 4.750, 53.867
- vessel
- M/V REGAL UNITY · 2 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
M/V REGAL UNITY REPORTS CREWMAN WITH APPENDICITIS REQUIRING MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN 04-45N 053-52E AT 181358Z MAY. VESSELS IN VICINITY ABLE TO PROVIDE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE REQUESTED TO ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO RCC AUSTRALIA, TELEX: 7162025, PHONE: 612 6230 6811.
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)
12 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.
- M/V chang he sank in 06-51.00N 052-39.00E2022-07-15
- M/V chang he, 12 persons on board, sank in 06-50.00N 052-38.00E2022-07-15
- Man overboard from M/V wehr altona in 04-37.7N 055-51.3E at 160345Z jul2007-07-16
- M/V corona fortuna reports crewman with severe hand injury in 05-25N 051-32E at 262030Z apr2004-04-26
- M/V eric ld reports crewman with head injury in 05-22N 052-40E2002-11-17
- M/V astro lynx reports crewman with injury requiring medical assistance in 05-56N 052-23E at 291600Z sep2002-09-29
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 01:55Z; 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.