Derelicts

Derelict vessel maria bonita adrift in 03-49.59S 032-24.12W

South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1443/21

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2021-06-01 00:37Z

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 V COASTAL N 404/21 290034Z MAY 21.. Issued 2021-05-29 00:37Z. 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 Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is -3.826, -32.402. 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 Atlantic Ocean →

issued
2021-05-29 00:37Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2021-06-01 00:37Z
authority
NAVAREA V COASTAL N 404/21 290034Z MAY 21.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA V · named as the source of this relay
issued by
NAVAREA V COASTAL N
sea
South Atlantic Ocean
position
-3.826, -32.402
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN SOUTH ATLANTIC.
BRAZIL-NORTHEAST COAST.
DNC 01.
1. DERELICT VESSEL MARIA BONITA ADRIFT IN
   03-49.59S 032-24.12W. REPORTS TO
   CAPITANIA DOS PORTOS DE PERNAMBUCO (CPPE)
   TEL: 5581 3424 7111
   E-MAIL: CPPE.SECOM@MARINHA.MIL.BR
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 010037Z JUN 21.

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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels

10 within 180 nm since 2003 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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23

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

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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

6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 18:51Z; 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.