Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 28-49.00N 012-50.00W at 221041Z feb
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 411/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-02-25 11:25Z
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 57/23 221114Z FEB 23.. Issued 2023-02-22 11:27Z. 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 28.817, -12.833. 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
- 2023-02-22 11:27Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-02-25 11:25Z
- authority
- NAVAREA II 57/23 221114Z FEB 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 28.817, -12.833
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. MOROCCO. DNC 01. 1. DERELICT VESSEL ADRIFT IN VICINITY 28-49.00N 012-50.00W AT 221041Z FEB. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 251125Z FEB 23.
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
29 within 180 nm since 2002 · 1 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.
- Vessel adrift in 29-03.30N 011-00.68W at 122100Z aug2026-08-12
- Derelict rubber vessel adrift in vicinity 28-44.01N 012-27.32W at 112230Z sept2023-09-12
- Rubber boats adrift in vicinity: a. 28-45.00N 012-55.00W2022-07-14
- 2 derelict rubber boats adrift in vicinity 27-45.60N 013-53.00W at 021751Z jul2022-07-02
- Two vessels adrift in vicinity 26-57.00N 014-28.00W at 240700Z jun2022-06-24
- Rubber boat, grey hull, adrift in vicinity 27-28.00N 014-26.00W2022-05-28
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
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-26 09:15Z; 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.