Derelict 20 person life raft adrift in vicinity 25-56.50S 012-50.40E on 18 aug
South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1604/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-08-19 18:30Z
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 2026-08-18 14:53Z. First collected 2026-08-19 19:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-23 15:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- South Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is -25.942, 12.840. 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
- 2026-08-18 14:53Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-08-21 14:55Z
- sea
- South Atlantic Ocean
- position
- -25.942, 12.840
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-19 19:02Z
Original warning text
SOUTH ATLANTIC. 1. DERELICT 20 PERSON LIFE RAFT ADRIFT IN VICINITY 25-56.50S 012-50.40E ON 18 AUG. VESSELS TO KEEP SHARP LOOKOUT AND REPORT SIGHTINGS TO CAPE TOWN RADIO AND MRCC CAPE TOWN. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 211455Z AUG 26 .
Reading this warning
- 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.
- Keep a sharp lookout
- A request to every ship in the area to watch for the vessel, people or object described.
- MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre)
- A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
- 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 · distress & casualty cases (archived)
13 within 180 nm since 1997 · 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.
- Distress signal received in vicinity 28-25.1S 014-21.3E2019-02-06
- Ten meter S/V cielo, cream hull, one person on board, disabled and adrift in 27-18.18S 011-29.30E2016-05-02
- Ten meter S/V cielo, cream hull, one person on board, disabled and adrift in 27-06.5S 011-25.9E2016-05-02
- Ten meter S/V cielo, cream hull, one person on board, disabled and adrift in 27-39.47S 011-05.10E2016-05-01
- M/V suenos overdue papeete (17-32.1S 149-34.2W) to whangarei (35-43.5S 174-19.4E)2015-05-13
- Distress signal received from M/V arion in 26-21S 011-04E at 262329Z nov2014-11-27
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 2026-09-24 12:21Z; 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) →
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.