Lightfloat ABF-1 adrift in 05-59.99N 048-06.40W at 092215Z dec
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 2403/09
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2009-12-13 08:45Z
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 N 2574/09 100032Z DEC 09.. Issued 2009-12-10 08:47Z. 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 6.000, -48.107. 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
- Lightfloat manoel luiz adrift in 00-46.2S 044-48.6W at 092215Z declater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2009-12-10 08:47Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2009-12-13 08:45Z
- authority
- NAVAREA V N 2574/09 100032Z DEC 09.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA V · named as the source of this relay
- issued by
- NAVAREA V N
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 6.000, -48.107
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. LIGHTFLOAT ABF-1 ADRIFT IN 05-59.99N 048-06.40W AT 092215Z DEC. REPORTS TO ANY COASTAL RADIO STATION. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 130845Z DEC.
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 · other warnings
11 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.
- Red flare sighted in 07-31.19N 049-42.07W at 150340Z dec2015-12-15
- S/V pamplemousse in need of fuel and requesting assistance in 04-46N 050-47W at 171950Z nov2012-11-17
- S/V momo dismasted in 06-25.5N 050-33.7W at 010710Z mar2012-03-01
- Recovery operations in progress until 14 dec by M/V neftegaz 31 in area bound by 07-44N 045-41W, 05-11N…2002-12-12
- Recovery operations in progress until 14 dec by M/V neftegaz 31 in area bound by 07-44N 045-41W, 05-11N…2002-12-12
- Recovery operations 28 nov thru 01 dec by M/V neftegaz 31 in area bound by 07-44N 045-41W, 05-13N 045-40W,…2002-11-26
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
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 02:48Z; source collection times vary.
Other
Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →
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.