Derelict 12 meter F/V adrift in vicinity 25-03.00N 023-36.00W at 051840Z dec
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 2812/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-12-08 20:44Z
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 350/23 052027Z DEC 23.. Issued 2023-12-05 21:09Z. 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 25.050, -23.600. 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
- 2023-12-05 21:09Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-12-08 20:44Z
- authority
- NAVAREA II 350/23 052027Z DEC 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 25.050, -23.600
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. DNC 01. 1. DERELICT 12 METER F/V ADRIFT IN VICINITY 25-03.00N 023-36.00W AT 051840Z DEC. REPORTS TO NAVAREA II, EMAIL: COORD.NAVAREA2@SHOM.FR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 082044Z DEC 23.
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.
- 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.
- NAVAREA
- One of the 21 ocean areas of the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service, each with a coordinator that broadcasts long-range warnings.
- 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
10 within 180 nm since 2013 · 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 nine meter vessel, blue and white hull, adrift in vicinity 26-43.74N 022-08.76W at 111228Z feb2024-02-11
- Derelict S/V adrift in vicinity 24-33.00N 020-56.00W at 072123Z jan2023-01-09
- Derelict S/V adrift in vicinity 24-33.00N 020-56.00W at 072123Z jan2023-01-07
- Derelict vessel, blue and purple hull, adrift in vicinity 22-50N 022-20W at 011730Z nov2021-11-02
- Derelict 15 meter S/V, white hull, adrift in vicinity 26-21N 025-56W at 252220Z apr 192019-04-26
- Derelict six meter rowboat adrift in vicinity 23-34.0N 025-38.3W at 232330Z dec2017-12-24
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 2026-09-26 14:48Z; 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.