Derelicts

North atlantic

North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 468/19

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2019-02-15 16:43Z

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 63/19 121641Z FEB 19.. Issued 2019-02-12 16:43Z. 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 27.250, -32.650. 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

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.

  1. HYDROLANT 468/19 · this notice2019-02-12 · Archived notice
  2. HYDROLANT 483/192019-02-14 · Archived notice
  3. HYDROLANT 498/192019-02-15 · Archived notice
  4. HYDROLANT 505/192019-02-16 · Archived notice
  5. HYDROLANT 514/192019-02-17 · Archived notice
  6. HYDROLANT 547/192019-02-19 · Archived notice
Compare all 6 notices, changes and original texts →

Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →

issued
2019-02-12 16:43Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2019-02-15 16:43Z
authority
NAVAREA II 63/19 121641Z FEB 19.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
sea
North Atlantic Ocean
position
27.250, -32.650
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

NORTH ATLANTIC.
DNC 01.
NORTH ATLANTIC.
DNC 01.
1. VESSEL ADRIFT IN VICINITY 27-15N 032-39W
   AT 120800Z FEB.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 151643Z FEB 19.

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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels

13 within 180 nm since 2002 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

02
05
10
15
19

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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D

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 2026-10-01 23:36Z; 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.