24 foot F/V belina, blue and white hull, two persons on board, disabled and adrift due to engine failure…
Caribbean Sea · HYDROLANT 2937/16
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2016-12-09 11:23Z
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) · MRCC FORT DE FRANCE 061210Z NOV 16.. Issued 2016-11-06 12:29Z. 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
- Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 17.000, -63.000. 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
- 24 foot F/V belina, blue and white hull, two persons on board, disabled and adrift due to engine failure…cancelled by this notice
- Cancel HYDROLANT 2897/16, 2904/16, 2912/16, 2924/16, 2927/16, 2934/16, 2936/16, 2937/16, 2952/16, 2996/16,…later cancellation notice
These messages are connected by recorded cancellation references. The links establish relationships between notices; they do not by themselves confirm a single object, a continuous track, or recovery.
- HYDROLANT 2895/162016-11-02 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 2937/16 · this notice2016-11-06 · Archived notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Caribbean Sea →
- issued
- 2016-11-06 12:29Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC FORT DE FRANCE 061210Z NOV 16.
- issued by
- MRCC FORT DE FRANCE
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 17.000, -63.000
- vessel
- F/V BELINA · 2 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA. ST. KITTS AND NEVIS. DNC 14, DNC 16. 1. 24 FOOT F/V BELINA, BLUE AND WHITE HULL, TWO PERSONS ON BOARD, DISABLED AND ADRIFT DUE TO ENGINE FAILURE VICINITY 17-00N 063-00W. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC FORT DE FRANCE, INMARSAT: 422799024, TELEX: 42912008, PHONE: 5965 9670 9292, FAX: 5965 9663 2450, E-MAIL: ANTILLES@MRCCFR.EU. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 2895/16.
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.
- Persons on board (POB)
- The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
- 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.
- Keep a sharp lookout
- A request to every ship in the area to watch for the vessel, people or object described.
- Assist if possible
- The second half of the standard rescue request: ships able to help are asked to do so.
- MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre)
- A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
- Inmarsat-C / SafetyNET
- The satellite system that carries NAVAREA warnings to ships at sea, and the terminal number rescue centres give for reports.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROLANT
- The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
208 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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.
- 32 foot S/V sensation, three persons on board, overdue guadeloupe (16-15.00N 061-30.00W) and return2024-04-22
- 13 meter F/V one love, white and grey hull, three persons on board, overdue saint john's (17-07.80N…2024-04-12
- 40 foot S/V epipapu 2, white hull, two persons on board, overdue saint barthelemy (17-53.60N 062-48.10W) to…2024-03-03
- S/V, three persons on board, disabled and adrift in vicinity 14-53.24N 063-58.27W2023-12-13
- S/V, three persons on board, disabled and adrift in vicinity 14-53.24N 063-58.27W2023-12-12
- S/V, white and blue hull, two persons on board, disabled and adrift in vicinity 14-52.23N 063-57.30W2023-12-12
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
- Kitts and nevisSpills · 38.4 nm
- Anchoring prohibited until further notice in area bound by 18-13.60N 063-04.15W, 18-13.60N 063-04.70W,…Other · 73.6 nm
- Pointe du vieux fort light 15-56.90N 061-42.46WNav aids · 97.6 nm
- Ilet du gosier light 16-11.90N 061-29.44W at reduced intensityOther · 99.3 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 19:53Z; source collection times vary.
Incidents
Search-and-rescue broadcasts, published only once a case has been closed for 30 days: groundings, sinkings, capsizes, fires, man overboard, overdue vessels. Nothing here is live. All current distress & casualty cases (archived) →
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.