Derelict drill rigs adrift: a. olinda star in 16-27.46N 082-25.6E
Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 1554/21
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2021-05-28 13:01Z
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 408/21 251033Z MAY 21.. Issued 2021-05-25 13:01Z. 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
- Bay of Bengal. The parsed report position is 16.502, 82.270. 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 Bay of Bengal →
- issued
- 2021-05-25 13:01Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2021-05-28 13:01Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 408/21 251033Z MAY 21.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Bay of Bengal
- position
- 16.502, 82.270
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
BAY OF BENGAL. INDIA. DNC 03. 1. DERELICT DRILL RIGS ADRIFT: A. OLINDA STAR IN 16-27.46N 082-25.6E. B. ABAN II IN 16-40.4N 082-24.3E. C. DEEP SEA FORTUNE IN 16-22.43N 081-58.69E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 281301Z MAY 21.
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.
- 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
21 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.
- Derelict F/V partially submerged and adrift in vicinity 14-14.59N 080-18.96E at 050230Z feb2024-02-06
- F/V kpr net boat adrift in 13-56.00N 082-07.00E at 230530Z jun2023-06-23
- Two F/V adrift in vicinity 13-45.60N 081-48.60E at 221503Z jun2023-06-22
- Derelict rig olinda star adrift in 16-22.34N 082-23.12E at 270200Z nov 202020-11-27
- M/V ssv louisiana adrift in vicinity 16-19.70N 082-25.67E on 23 oct2020-10-23
- Derelict F/V CHAMPA7, partially submerged and adrift in 13-52.3N 082-58.7E at 050145Z jul2020-07-05
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 02:56Z; 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.