Derelict 40 foot barge adrift vicinity 34-00.4N 027-21.6E
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin · HYDROLANT 2520/02
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2002-11-23 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) · USS NORMANDY 152157Z NOV 02. Issued 2002-11-16 00:35Z. 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
- Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin. The parsed report position is 34.007, 27.360. 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 Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin →
- issued
- 2002-11-16 00:35Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- USS NORMANDY 152157Z NOV 02
- issued by
- USS NORMANDY
- sea
- Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
- position
- 34.007, 27.360
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. DERELICT 40 FOOT BARGE ADRIFT VICINITY 34-00.4N 027-21.6E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 23 NOV.
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.
- 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
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.
- 35 foot vessel, white hull, adrift in vicinity 33-41.00N 030-30.00E at 240700Z sep2022-09-24
- Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 33-57.6N 029-30.2E at 051500Z feb2019-02-06
- Derelict vessel adrift vicinity 34-17.4N 023-47.9E2007-12-28
- S/V tamer 2 disabled and adrift vicinity 34-16N 023-50E2004-02-04
- M/V sumatra disabled due to steering failure in 33-42.9N 026-48.5E2002-12-09
- Derelict 78 meter M/V makedonia adrift vicinity 35-33N 030-06E2001-04-23
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
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 2026-10-03 10:39Z; 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.