Derelict F/V adrift in vicinity 37-12N 011-18W
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 363/20
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2020-02-02 14:44Z
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 III 142/20 011907Z FEB 20.. Issued 2020-02-01 19:34Z. 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 37.200, -11.300. 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
- Cancel HYDROLANT 363/20 and this msglater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2020-02-01 19:34Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2020-02-04 19:34Z
- authority
- NAVAREA III 142/20 011907Z FEB 20.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 37.200, -11.300
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. DNC 08. 1. DERELICT F/V ADRIFT IN VICINITY 37-12N 011-18W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 041934Z FEB 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.
- 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
31 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.
- Derelict ten meter S/V josephine adrift in vicinity 35-10.40N 012-13.30W at 011317Z jan2024-01-01
- Derelict S/V, white hull, adrift in vicinity 36-49.00N 012-24.00W at 271648Z mar2023-03-29
- Derelict S/V adrift in vicinity 36-02.00N 012-40.00W at 051200Z jul2022-07-05
- Derelict S/V adrift in vicinity 35-28.00N 008-57.00W at 240300Z may2022-05-24
- Derelict ten meter S/V indian summer, white hull, adrift in vicinity 35-39N 009-19W at 200400Z feb2022-02-22
- Derelict ten meter S/V, white hull, adrift in vicinity 35-14.5N 011-51.6W at 231842Z dec2021-12-24
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
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 02:48Z; 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.