Vessel ricardo disabled and adrift vicinity 17-00N 066-37W at 051334Z mar
Caribbean Sea · HYDROLANT 500/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-03-17 09:09Z
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) · USCG SAN JUAN 051336Z MAR 12.. Issued 2012-03-05 15:09Z. 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
- Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 17.000, -66.617. 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 Caribbean Sea →
- issued
- 2012-03-05 15:09Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- USCG SAN JUAN 051336Z MAR 12.
- issued by
- USCG SAN JUAN
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 17.000, -66.617
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORTHEASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA. PUERTO RICO. VESSEL RICARDO DISABLED AND ADRIFT VICINITY 17-00N 066-37W AT 051334Z MAR. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO USCG SAN JUAN, PHONE: 787 289 2041, E-MAIL: SSJCC@USCG.MIL.
Reading this warning
- 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.
- Keep a sharp lookout
- A request to every ship in the area to watch for the vessel, people or object described.
- Assist if possible
- The second half of the standard rescue request: ships able to help are asked to do so.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
26 within 180 nm since 2012 · 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 42 foot M/V adrift in vicinity 14-10.11N 067-17.21W at 300130Z aug2023-08-30
- Derelict 28 foot S/V m'enfin adrift in vicinity 15-06.90N 068-49.60W2023-07-17
- Derelict S/V le siguer, white hull, adrift in 14-42.84N 066-22.75W at 271916Z may2023-05-28
- Derelict sv adrift in 14-51.72N 065-58.86W at 221605Z apr2023-04-23
- Derelict M/V kalisto, white hull, adrift in 14-59.00N 068-27.00W at 061234Z mar2023-03-07
- Derelict M/V kalisto, white hull, adrift in 14-59.00N 068-27.00W at 061234Z mar2023-03-07
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 00:26Z; 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.