A vessel is adrift at 29-03.30N 011-00.68W in the North Atlantic near Morocco as of August 12.
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1558/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-08-21 15:40Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-08-12 22:38Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-23 11:02Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 29.055, -11.011. 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
- 2026-08-12 22:38Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-08-15 22:38Z
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 29.055, -11.011
- nearest port
- Agadir · 109 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
NORTH ATLANTIC. MOROCCO. 1. VESSEL ADRIFT IN 29-03.30N 011-00.68W AT 122100Z AUG. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 152238Z AUG 26.
Reading this warning
- 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.
- 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
17 within 180 nm since 2002 · 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 rubber vessel adrift in vicinity 28-44.01N 012-27.32W at 112230Z sept2023-09-12
- S/V thiassi disabled and adrift due to engine failure in vicinity 32-00.40N 011-27.20W2023-07-02
- Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 28-49.00N 012-50.00W at 221041Z feb2023-02-22
- Rubber boats adrift in vicinity: a. 28-45.00N 012-55.00W2022-07-14
- 2 derelict rubber boats adrift in vicinity 27-45.60N 013-53.00W at 021751Z jul2022-07-02
- Derelict seven meter vessel, grey hull, adrift in vicinity 27-31.0N 013-41.9W at 222030Z aug2021-08-22
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
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 06:38Z; 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.