14 meter F/V moorea ravaai IV disabled and adrift due to engine failure in 15-52S 149-00W
South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 1472/11
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2011-05-28 09:08Z
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 PAPEETE 170456Z MAY 11. Issued 2011-05-17 05:26Z. 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
- South Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is -15.867, -149.000. 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 South Pacific Ocean →
- issued
- 2011-05-17 05:26Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC PAPEETE 170456Z MAY 11
- issued by
- MRCC PAPEETE
- sea
- South Pacific Ocean
- position
- -15.867, -149.000
- vessel
- F/V MOOREA RAVAAI IV
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH PACIFIC. 14 METER F/V MOOREA RAVAAI IV DISABLED AND ADRIFT DUE TO ENGINE FAILURE IN 15-52S 149-00W. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE. REPORTS TO MRCC PAPEETE, INMARSAT-C: 582 422 799 192, PHONE: 689 465 316, FAX: 689 423 915, E-MAIL: MRCCPAPEETE@MAIL.PF.
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.
- Inmarsat-C / SafetyNET
- The satellite system that carries NAVAREA warnings to ships at sea, and the terminal number rescue centres give for reports.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
18 within 180 nm since 2002 · 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 46 foot M/V poe iti VI semi-submerged and adrift in 17-20.00S 150-27.00W at 031057Z may2024-05-03
- Derelict ten meter S/V, blue hull, adrift in 17-56.28S 149-38.03W at 101117Z dec2023-12-11
- Derelict seven meter F/V, blue hull, adrift in 17-27.14S 150-03.14W at 010805Z nov2023-11-01
- 40 foot catamaran partially submerged and adrift in 17-52.00S 149-28.00W at 102200Z oct2022-10-11
- Derelict 40 foot S/V poeme, partially submerged in 17-53.43S 149-29.09W at 020230Z oct 222022-10-03
- 40 foot vessel poeme, partially submerged and adrift in 17-31.07S 150-17.00W at 200200Z sep2022-09-20
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
- Pointe venus light 17-29.70S 149-29.66W unlitNav aids · 101.8 nm
- Pointe aroa light 17-28.40S 149-46.50W unlitNav aids · 106.3 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 01:16Z; 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.