Derelicts

Derelict 15 meter vessel adrift vicinity 02-08N 121-04E at 040548Z dec 2. cancel this msg 11 dec

Celebes Sea · HYDROPAC 1353/99

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 1999-12-11 06:00Z

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 XI 724/99 041206Z DEC 99.. Issued 1999-12-04 14:47Z. 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: Celebes Sea. The parsed report position is 2.133, 121.067. 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 Celebes Sea →

issued: 1999-12-04 14:47Z
status: Archived notice
authority: NAVAREA XI 724/99 041206Z DEC 99.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea: Celebes Sea
position: 2.133, 121.067
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. DERELICT 15 METER VESSEL ADRIFT VICINITY 02-08N 121-04E
   AT 040548Z DEC
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 11 DEC.

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.
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

2 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.

F/V tmb, white and dark blue hull, disabled due to engine failure in vicinity 00-14N 122-55E2019-09-13

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

5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 21:04Z; 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.