Eight meter vessel adrift vicinity 40-17.8N 018-52.7E
Adriatic Sea · HYDROLANT 562/02
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2002-03-12 04:30Z
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) · MRCC ROME AOR-E EGC #598 111513Z MAR 02; MARDIPART TARANTO 181/02 111500A MAR 02. Issued 2002-03-11 16:58Z. 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
- Adriatic Sea. The parsed report position is 40.297, 18.878. 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
- Derelict eight meter vessel, green hull, partially submerged and adrift in 40-17.8N 018-52.7Ecancelled by this notice
- Cancel HYDROLANT 562/02 and this msg, search suspendedlater cancellation notice
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.
- HYDROLANT 562/02 · this notice2002-03-11 · Archived notice
- HYDROLANT 568/022002-03-12 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2002-03-11 16:58Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC ROME AOR-E EGC #598 111513Z MAR 02; MARDIPART TARANTO 181/02 111500A MAR 02
- issued by
- MRCC ROME AOR-E EGC
- sea
- Adriatic Sea
- position
- 40.297, 18.878
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. EIGHT METER VESSEL ADRIFT VICINITY 40-17.8N 018-52.7E. FOUR PERSONS MISSING. VESSELS IN VICINTIY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC ROME, TELEX: 4361 4156, PHONE: 390 6592 4145, FAX: 390 6592 2737. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 561/02.
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.
- 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.
- MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre)
- A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROLANT
- The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
136 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.
- 15 meter S/V ILAN7, white hull, one person on board, unreported malta (35-54.00N 014-31.00E) to preveza…2024-04-23
- 12 meter S/V eros II, one person on board, unreported2024-04-17
- 12 meter S/V, white hull, one person on board, unreported2024-04-17
- S/V 50 to 70 persons on board, unreported in vicinity 38-00.00N 018-00.00E2023-12-13
- Vessel, white hull, numerous persons on board, unreported2023-11-03
- S/V, 45 persons on board, requesting assistance in vicinity 38-06.00N 018-47.00E at 010700Z oct2023-10-01
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
0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 09:25Z; source collection times vary.
Incidents
Search-and-rescue broadcasts, published only once a case has been closed for 30 days: groundings, sinkings, capsizes, fires, man overboard, overdue vessels. Nothing here is live. All current distress & casualty cases (archived) →
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.