Derelict vessel sea star veritas adrift vicinity 28-51.5S 036-01.6E
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 1329/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-05-14 15:30Z
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) · NAVAREA VII 124/12 111429Z MAY 12.. Issued 2012-05-11 15:33Z. 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
- Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is -28.858, 36.027. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2012-05-11 15:33Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2012-05-14 15:30Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VII 124/12 111429Z MAY 12.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -28.858, 36.027
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN OCEAN. MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL. 1. DERELICT VESSEL SEA STAR VERITAS ADRIFT VICINITY 28-51.5S 036-01.6E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 141530Z MAY.
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.
- 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
14 within 180 nm since 2003 · 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.
- M/V falbala disabled and sailing without navigational lights2021-11-12
- Derelict F/V de yi NO.6 on fire and adrift in vicinity 31-38.02S 035-37.68E2021-06-24
- Derelict vessel gold gemini adrift in 30-50S 037-46E2019-05-02
- Vessel gold gemini, disabled and adrift in 30-29S 038-05E2019-04-30
- Derelict F/V hsiang fuh no 6 adrift in vicinity 28-25.3S 037-18.7E2017-07-13
- Derelict F/V hsiang fun no 6 adrift in vicinity 27-59.0S 038-33.6E2017-07-09
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 10:11Z; 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.