Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 19-37.30S 038-48.70W
South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 186/24
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-01-27 21:58Z
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 32/24 242132Z JAN 24.. Issued 2024-01-24 22:02Z. 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 -19.622, -38.812. 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
- 2024-01-24 22:02Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2024-01-27 21:58Z
- authority
- NAVAREA V 32/24 242132Z JAN 24.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA V · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South Atlantic Ocean
- position
- -19.622, -38.812
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN SOUTH ATLANTIC. BRAZIL. DNC 01. 1. DERELICT VESSEL ADRIFT IN VICINITY 19-37.30S 038-48.70W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 272158Z JAN 24.
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.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
45 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 21-33.82S 040-43.64W at 101601Z sep 222022-09-15
- Derelict vessel adrift in 22-02.16S 039-46.38W at 141107Z jul2022-07-17
- Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 19-47.14S 039-54.82W at 151310Z may2021-05-16
- Derelict lifebarge adrift in vicinity 21-20.21S 040-05.44W at 101450Z sep2020-09-14
- Derelict vessel os mocofaias adrift in 20-21S 040-07W at 241600Z may2020-05-26
- Derelict vessel adrift in 20-19S 040-12W2020-05-23
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
- Underwater operations 0800Z to 1800Z daily 26 sep thru 10 oct by M/V comando b in 19-51.63S 039-56.90WSurveys · 65.8 nm
- Foul ground until 06 dec 27 in area bound by 19-53.87S 039-59.68W, 19-54.15S 039-59.27W, 19-53.08S…Wrecks · 68.2 nm
- Underwater operations 0800Z to 1800Z daily 26 sep thru 10 oct by M/V comando b in 20-23.78S 040-09.43WSurveys · 89 nm
- Yellow odas buoy established in 17-58.12S 038-41.48W until 19 octNav aids · 99.5 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 01:53Z; 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.