Derelict 90 meter barge midlandia, black hull, adrift vicinity 25-49N 120-46E
Eastern China Sea · HYDROPAC 1185/10
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2010-06-10 00:35Z
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 VLADIVOSTOK 06 JUN 10.. Issued 2010-06-07 00:35Z. 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
- Eastern China Sea. The parsed report position is 25.817, 120.767. 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 Eastern China Sea →
- issued
- 2010-06-07 00:35Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2010-06-10 00:35Z
- authority
- MRCC VLADIVOSTOK 06 JUN 10.
- issued by
- MRCC VLADIVOSTOK
- sea
- Eastern China Sea
- position
- 25.817, 120.767
- vessel
- BARGE MIDLANDIA
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
TAIWAN STRAIT. 1. DERELICT 90 METER BARGE MIDLANDIA, BLACK HULL, ADRIFT VICINITY 25-49N 120-46E. REPORTS TO MRCC VLADIVOSTOK, INMARSAT-C: 582492500379, PHONE: 742 3249 5522, 742 3222 7782, FAX: 742 3249 5895, E-MAIL: VLDVMRCC@VED.PMA.RU. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 100035Z JUN.
Reading this warning
- 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.
- MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre)
- A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
- Inmarsat-C / SafetyNET
- The satellite system that carries NAVAREA warnings to ships at sea, and the terminal number rescue centres give for reports.
- 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
12 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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 barge franklin victory adrift vicinity 24-08.9N 119-14.8E2011-10-26
- Derelict vessel patriot, blue hull, adrift in 24-29.4N 118-44.7E at 050035Z oct2009-10-05
- Derelict 3147 ton barge adrift in 25-16.5N 120-50.0E at 290720Z mar2009-04-01
- Derelict 29 meter barge ikari maru adrift vicinity 23-57N 120-03E at 021400Z oct2004-10-04
- Derelict 21 meter vessel adrift in 25-50N 121-16E at 271030Z jul2004-07-28
- Barge adrift vicinity 25-05N 120-25E at 082300Z nov2000-11-09
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 12:24Z; 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.