Derelicts

Derelict 19 ton F/V ryuo maru no

North Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 1751/03

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2003-10-17 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 512/03 09 OCT 03; GUAMSARCOORD 0920008Z OCT 03; GUAMSARCOORD 092012Z OCT 03. Issued 2003-10-10 00:30Z. 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
North Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is 35.967, 165.405. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

Current notices and reporting history in the North Pacific Ocean →

issued
2003-10-10 00:30Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA XI 512/03 09 OCT 03; GUAMSARCOORD 0920008Z OCT 03; GUAMSARCOORD 092012Z OCT 03
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea
North Pacific Ocean
position
35.967, 165.405
vessel
F/V RYUO MARU NO 8 · 2 messages
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. DERELICT 19 TON F/V RYUO MARU NO. 8
   ADRIFT IN 35-58-00N 165-24-18E AT 092030Z OCT.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 1747/03(81), SIGNALS CEASED.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 17 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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROPAC
The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels

10 within 180 nm since 2003 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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05
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15

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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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 2026-10-03 07:11Z; 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.