Derelict nine meter vessel, blue and white hull, adrift in vicinity 26-43.74N 022-08.76W at 111228Z feb
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 296/24
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-02-14 13:46Z
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 37/24 111337Z FEB 24.. Issued 2024-02-11 13:50Z. 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 26.729, -22.146. 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
- 2024-02-11 13:50Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2024-02-14 13:46Z
- authority
- NAVAREA II 37/24 111337Z FEB 24.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 26.729, -22.146
- 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 NINE METER VESSEL, BLUE AND WHITE HULL, ADRIFT IN VICINITY 26-43.74N 022-08.76W AT 111228Z FEB. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 141346Z FEB 24.
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.
- 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
8 within 180 nm since 2019 · 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 12 meter F/V adrift in vicinity 25-03.00N 023-36.00W at 051840Z dec2023-12-05
- 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 eight meter vessel, blue hull, adrift in 25-46N 019-48W at 020958Z feb 212021-02-02
- Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 27-37N 019-41W at 250800Z nov2020-11-25
- Derelict 15 meter S/V, white hull, adrift in vicinity 25-59N 019-07W at 082122Z aug2020-08-09
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
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 01:28Z; 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.