Derelicts

A ten-meter derelict vessel is adrift at 11-55.02S 141-54.27E in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, as of 020629Z Aug.

Arafura Sea · HYDROPAC 2209/26

What this record establishes

Listed active; expiry time has passed

The message scheduled its own cancellation for 2026-08-06 01:13 UTC. The stored status still says active; check the issuing authority for the current notice.

Source and dates: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-08-03 01:13Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-27 19:47Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Arafura Sea. The parsed report position is -11.917, 141.905. 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 Arafura Sea →

issued: 2026-08-03 01:13Z
status: Listed active; expiry time has passed
self-cancels: 2026-08-06 01:13Z
sea: Arafura Sea
position: -11.917, 141.905
nearest port: Weipa · 45 nm
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

GULF OF CARPENTARIA.
AUSTRALIA.
1. DERELICT TEN METER VESSEL ADRIFT IN
   11-55.02S 141-54.27E AT 020629Z AUG.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 060113Z AUG 26.

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.

All warning terms →

Drift estimate · where it probably is now

estimated: -8.831, 129.026 · ±300 nm
from report: 782.7 nm toward 282° over 55.7 d
current: 0.3 kn toward 184°
wind: 16 kn from 101° · 3% leeway
method: one step with today's field over 55.7 d (report predates the estimate) · as of 2026-09-27 18:50Z

Surface current (HYCOM, U.S. Navy) plus 3% of the wind (MET Norway). An estimate drawn dashed on the map above — not a position, not for navigation or search and rescue.

Conditions at the position · now

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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation

Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels

53 within 180 nm since 2000 · 1 in the last 12 months · 1 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.

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

Duyfken point light K3297 in position 12-34.15S 141-35.98E unlitNav aids · 43 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-27 20:01Z; 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.