Derelict vessel pacific adrift vicinity 00-11.6S 007-55.0E
Gulf of Guinea · HYDROLANT 1780/09
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2009-09-21 11:55Z
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) · JRCC LARNACA 181055Z SEP 09.. Issued 2009-09-18 11:56Z. 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
- Gulf of Guinea. The parsed report position is -0.193, 7.917. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Seismic survey in progress until 31 oct by M/V bergen surveyor towing 9000 meter long cable in area bound by…cancelled by this notice
- Vessel pacific, 13 persons on board, sinking in 00-11.6S 007-55.0Ecancelled by this notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Gulf of Guinea →
- issued
- 2009-09-18 11:56Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2009-09-21 11:55Z
- authority
- JRCC LARNACA 181055Z SEP 09.
- issued by
- JRCC LARNACA
- sea
- Gulf of Guinea
- position
- -0.193, 7.917
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. DERELICT VESSEL PACIFIC ADRIFT VICINITY 00-11.6S 007-55.0E. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 1575/09(15,38). 3. CANCEL HYDROLANT 1778/09, PERSONS RESCUED. 4. CANCEL THIS MSG 211155Z SEP.
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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROLANT
- The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
- 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
2 within 180 nm since 2009 · 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.
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 2026-10-02 17:49Z; 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.