Incidents · disabled

12 meter F/V, light blue and white hull, four persons on board, disabled and adrift in area bound by…

North Pacific Ocean · NAVAREA XII 818/23

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2023-11-20 16:28Z

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) · PANAMA MARITIME AUTHORITY 0/23 191518Z NOV 23.. Issued 2023-11-19 15:35Z. 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: North Pacific Ocean. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Original warning text

GULF OF PANAMA.
PANAMA.
12 METER F/V, LIGHT BLUE AND WHITE HULL,
FOUR PERSONS ON BOARD, DISABLED AND ADRIFT
IN AREA BOUND BY
08-08.18N 078-40.40W, 07-37.80N 078-42.10W,
07-34.20N 079-27.90W, 08-03.60N 079-31.80W.
VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A
SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
REPORTS TO 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.
Area bound by: Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)

61 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.

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

Manzanillo entrance west head light 09-22.90N 079-53.90W damagedNav aids · 103.5 nm
Manzanillo entrance light 09-22.90N 079-53.90W temporarily changed to whiteNav aids · 103.5 nm
Port hand 3 buoy 09-23.52N 079-53.75W missingNav aids · 104 nm
Starboard hand 4 buoy 09-23.52N 079-53.87W missingNav aids · 104 nm
Lm buoy 09-25.99N 079-49.78W missingNav aids · 104.4 nm
Fish farm established in area bound by 07-10.96N 077-54.60W, 06-56.19N 078-07.51W, 06-50.73N 078-04.75W,…Structures · 109.5 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 21:59Z; 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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