Derelict eight meter rubber boat, gray hull, adrift in 25-26.00N 015-53.00W
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1304/22
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2022-05-20 19:17Z
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) · NAVAREA II 155/22 171714Z MAY 22.. Issued 2022-05-17 19:17Z. 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 Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 25.433, -15.883. 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 North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2022-05-17 19:17Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2022-05-20 19:17Z
- authority
- NAVAREA II 155/22 171714Z MAY 22.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 25.433, -15.883
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. WESTERN SAHARA. DNC 01. 1. DERELICT EIGHT METER RUBBER BOAT, GRAY HULL, ADRIFT IN 25-26.00N 015-53.00W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 201917Z MAY 22.
Reading this warning
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- Derelict
- An abandoned vessel still afloat and drifting, with no one on board.
- 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
72 within 180 nm since 2003 · 1 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.
- Derelict vessel adrift2026-09-18
- Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 22-58.00N 017-42.00W at 290950Z dec2023-12-29
- Derelict S/V adrift in vicinity 26-15.40N 015-15.40W at 011445Z dec2023-12-01
- Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 23-41.00N 017-13.00W at 030010Z aug2023-08-03
- Derelict 12 meter vessel, white hull, adrift in vicinity 26-14.60N 018-46.50W at 200500Z jul2023-07-20
- Derelict 44 meter F/V oumnia 7 adrift in vicinity 25-22.00N 015-16.00W at 162130Z jul2023-07-17
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
- Newly discovered dangersWrecks · 88.6 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-30 07:58Z; source collection times vary.
Derelicts
Abandoned, disabled or drifting vessels. All current derelict & adrift vessels →
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.