Incidents · capsize

Derelict 32 meter vessel, red hull, capsized and adrift vicinity 34-26.5S 028-59.2E at 060815Z aug

Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 2309/14

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2014-08-10 14:20Z

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 071336Z AUG 14.. Issued 2014-08-07 14:20Z. 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 -34.442, 28.987. 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

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  1. HYDROPAC 2309/14 · this notice2014-08-07 · Archived notice
  2. HYDROPAC 2330/142014-08-09 · Archived notice
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Current notices and reporting history in the Indian Ocean →

issued
2014-08-07 14:20Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2014-08-10 14:20Z
authority
NAVAREA VII 071336Z AUG 14.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA VII · named as the source of this relay
sea
Indian Ocean
position
-34.442, 28.987
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN OCEAN.
SOUTH AFRICA.
1. DERELICT 32 METER VESSEL, RED HULL,
   CAPSIZED AND ADRIFT VICINITY
   34-26.5S 028-59.2E AT 060815Z AUG.
   REPORTS TO MRCC CAPE TOWN OR
   CAPE TOWN RADIO.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 2301/14.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 101420Z AUG 14.

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.
MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre)
A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
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 · distress & casualty cases (archived)

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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

0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 05:29Z; source collection times vary.

Incidents

Search-and-rescue broadcasts, published only once a case has been closed for 30 days: groundings, sinkings, capsizes, fires, man overboard, overdue vessels. Nothing here is live. All current distress & casualty cases (archived) →

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