M/V casterone adrift in vicinity 37-27.9N 001-02.3W at 021600Z oct 20
Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin · HYDROLANT 2996/20
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2020-10-05 16:00Z
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) · NAVAREA III 1313/20 030017Z OCT 20.. Issued 2020-10-03 00:58Z. 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 - Western Basin. The parsed report position is 37.465, -1.038. 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 - Western Basin →
- issued
- 2020-10-03 00:58Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2020-10-05 16:00Z
- authority
- NAVAREA III 1313/20 030017Z OCT 20.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin
- position
- 37.465, -1.038
- vessel
- M/V CASTERONE
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA. SPAIN. DNC 08. 1. M/V CASTERONE ADRIFT IN VICINITY 37-27.9N 001-02.3W AT 021600Z OCT 20. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 051600Z OCT 20.
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.
- 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
12 within 180 nm since 2004 · 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 adrift in vicinity 35-46.4N 002-10.1W at 141457Z oct2021-10-15
- Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 37-12.5N 000-44.3E at 041100Z mar 212021-03-05
- Derelict vessel, gray and white hull adrift in 36-22.5N 001-01.5W at 191010Z feb2021-02-19
- Derelict vessel, black hull, adrift in vicinity 37-10.8N 001-44.1W at 091939Z sep2020-09-10
- Derelict vessel, white and brown hull, adrift in vicinity 37-04N 000-32W at 011633Z jan2020-01-01
- Two derelict vessels adrift in: a. 36-01.1N 003-21.6W b. 36-00.0N 003-20.5W 2. cancel this msg 011724Z jul 192019-06-28
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
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-30 00:08Z; 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.