Derelict 33 foot vessel adrift vicinity 10-30N 016-44W at 081745Z oct
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1639/04
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2004-10-15 00:00Z
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 295/04 081845Z OCT 04.. Issued 2004-10-08 19:11Z. 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 10.500, -16.733. 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
- 2004-10-08 19:11Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA II 295/04 081845Z OCT 04.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 10.500, -16.733
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. DERELICT 33 FOOT VESSEL ADRIFT VICINITY 10-30N 016-44W AT 081745Z OCT. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 15 OCT.
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.
- 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
12 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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.
- Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 12-03N 017-50W at 030530Z feb2022-02-03
- F/V fimela disabled and adrift in 11-03N 018-07W at 111930Z nov2018-11-11
- Derelict F/V adrift in vicinity 12-50N 017-48W at 281100Z jun 182018-06-28
- Derelict F/V partially submerged and adrift in vicinity 08-30.4N 015-03.5W at 151608Z feb2018-02-15
- Derelict F/V baraka adrift vicinity 08-23N 017-25W2016-11-08
- F/V baraka disabled and adrift due to engine failure in 08-15.4N 017-51.5W at 241330Z oct2016-10-31
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
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-28 07:20Z; 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.