Derelicts

Derelict S/V danzig adrift in 33-29.5S 031-26.8E

Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 2150/19

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2019-07-04 15:44Z

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 VII 243/19 011320Z JUL 19.. Issued 2019-07-01 15:44Z. 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 -33.492, 31.447. 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 Indian Ocean →

issued: 2019-07-01 15:44Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2019-07-04 15:44Z
authority: NAVAREA VII 243/19 011320Z JUL 19.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA VII · named as the source of this relay
sea: Indian Ocean
position: -33.492, 31.447
vessel: S/V DANZIG · 2 messages
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN OCEAN.
DNC 02.
1. DERELICT S/V DANZIG ADRIFT IN 33-29.5S 031-26.8E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 041544Z JUL 19.

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.

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Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels

6 within 180 nm since 2007 · 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 reported partially submerged and adrift in 32-50.4S 032-35.3E2021-07-20
Derelict vessel, red hull, adrift vicinity 34-26.5S 028-59.2E at 060815Z aug2014-08-06
Derelict F/V jin chun tsa adrift in 35-59.3S 032-57.1E2014-05-24
F/V jelly fish adrift in 32-58.2S 030-15.1E2011-11-08
7 adrift vicinity 33-41.800S 033-19.855E at 152100Z jul2007-07-16

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 2026-10-01 20:08Z; 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.