Derelict F/V eshan putha adrift in 00-04N 077-07E at 280615Z apr
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 1505/17
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2017-05-01 23:45Z
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 VIII 352/17 282212Z APR 17.. Issued 2017-04-28 23:45Z. 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 0.067, 77.117. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2017-04-28 23:45Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2017-05-01 23:45Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 352/17 282212Z APR 17.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- 0.067, 77.117
- vessel
- F/V ESHAN PUTHA
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORTHERN INDIAN OCEAN. DNC 03. 1. DERELICT F/V ESHAN PUTHA ADRIFT IN 00-04N 077-07E AT 280615Z APR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 012345Z MAY 17.
Reading this warning
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
15 within 180 nm since 2015 · 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 F/V jakob putha adrift in vicinity 02-13S 078-17E at 161115Z oct2021-10-22
- Derelict F/V WOSHINI1 adrift in vicinity 00-13N 077-25E at 090330Z may2019-05-09
- F/V dimosh putha adrift in 01-37N 078-04E at 041130Z may2019-05-04
- Derelict F/V NIKELA01 adrift in vicinity 00-40N 079-22E at 130330Z mar 192019-03-13
- Derelict F/V NIKELA1 adrift in vicinity 00-56N 079-13E at 110830Z mar 192019-03-12
- Derelict M/V slfv sasmi DU1 adrift in vicinity 02-12N 077-55E at 130300Z feb2019-02-13
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
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 04:34Z; 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.