Vessel, white hull, two persons on board, requesting assistance in 70-13N 054-13W at 172045 aug
Baffin Bay · NAVAREA IV 665/18
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2018-08-31 10:15Z
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) · AASIAAT RADIO 172045Z AUG 18.. Issued 2018-08-17 21:07Z. 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
- Baffin Bay. The parsed report position is 70.217, -54.217. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2018-08-17 21:07Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- AASIAAT RADIO 172045Z AUG 18.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- AASIAAT RADIO
- sea
- Baffin Bay
- position
- 70.217, -54.217
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
DAVIS STRAIT. GREENLAND. VESSEL, WHITE HULL, TWO PERSONS ON BOARD, REQUESTING ASSISTANCE IN 70-13N 054-13W AT 172045 AUG. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO AASIAAT RADIO, E-MAIL: OYR@TELEPOST.GL.
Reading this warning
- Persons on board (POB)
- The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
60 within 180 nm since 2009 · 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.
- Vessel, five persons on board, disabled and adrift, requesting assistance in 70-36-31N 052-10-55W2019-07-16
- Vessel, one person on board, unreported aasiaat (68-42-35N 052-52-10W) to ikamiut (68-38-00N 051-49-58W)2019-05-30
- Vessel, white hull, four persons onboard, unreported aasiaat (68-42.58N 052-52.17W) to niaqornaarsuk…2018-11-29
- S/V fredoya, six persons on board, unreported upernavik (072-47N 56-09W)2018-07-14
- M/V togo, 14 persons on board, requesting assistance in 68-23.50N 053-45.17W2018-07-01
- Distress signal received from 15 foot M/V, one persons on board, between ilulissat (69-13-00N 051-06-00W)…2018-01-01
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 00:55Z; 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) →
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