Derelict F/V ponta negra adrift in vicinity 01-32.9S 043-43.7W
South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 2825/19
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2019-09-19 19:30Z
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 COASTAL N 958/19 161847Z SEP 19.. Issued 2019-09-16 19:30Z. 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 -1.548, -43.728. 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
- 2019-09-16 19:30Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2019-09-19 19:30Z
- authority
- NAVAREA V COASTAL N 958/19 161847Z SEP 19.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA V · named as the source of this relay
- issued by
- NAVAREA V COASTAL N
- sea
- South Atlantic Ocean
- position
- -1.548, -43.728
- vessel
- F/V PONTA NEGRA
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN SOUTH ATLANTIC. BRAZIL-NORTH COAST. DNC 01. 1. DERELICT F/V PONTA NEGRA ADRIFT IN VICINITY 01-32.9S 043-43.7W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 191930Z SEP 19.
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
6 within 180 nm since 2003 · 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 M/V jaime alves adrift in 01-10.53S 044-42.20W at 271800Z jun2018-06-27
- Derelict F/V talita adrift in 00-58S 043-47W at 211100Z jul2012-07-22
- Derelict ten meter M/V moana, yellow hull, adrift in 00-28.20S 044-27.98W at 121251Z mar2012-03-13
- Derelict ten meter M/V moana, yellow hull, adrift in 00-24.72S 043-00.87W on 10 mar2012-03-11
- M/V amyn adrift in 01-47.7S 043-51.6W2003-04-24
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 00:56Z; 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.