Derelict 29 meter barge ikari maru adrift vicinity 23-57N 120-03E at 021400Z oct
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 1578/04
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2004-10-11 00:00Z
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 467/04 04 OCT.. Issued 2004-10-04 05:23Z. 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 China Sea. The parsed report position is 23.950, 120.050. 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 China Sea →
- issued
- 2004-10-04 05:23Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 467/04 04 OCT.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 23.950, 120.050
- vessel
- BARGE IKARI MARU
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. DERELICT 29 METER BARGE IKARI MARU ADRIFT VICINITY 23-57N 120-03E AT 021400Z OCT. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 11 OCT.
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.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
27 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.
- Lifeboat and numberous logs adrift at 160224Z jan vicinity: a. 23-32.7N 122-58.2E2016-01-16
- Derelict 100 meter M/V fu long adrift vicinity 23-22.5N 122-58.2E at 141806Z jan2016-01-14
- Derelict 25 foot F/V, green hull with blue stripe, adrift vicinity 21-21.4N 120-09.0E2015-03-26
- Derelict nine meter M/V mizukaze adrift vicinity 21-22N 119-12E at 090330Z apr2014-04-09
- Derelict barge adrift in 21-48N 119-25E at 090800Z nov2013-11-09
- Derelict 19 ton M/V partially submerged and adrift vicinity 21-58N 122-20E at 100504Z dec2011-12-10
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 2026-09-29 04:47Z; 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.