Derelict six meter F/V adrift vicinity 21-43.4N 114-50.9E at 280525Z nov
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 2342/08
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2008-12-05 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 713/08 28 NOV 08.. Issued 2008-11-28 17:37Z. 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 21.723, 114.848. 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
- 2008-11-28 17:37Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 713/08 28 NOV 08.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 21.723, 114.848
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. DERELICT SIX METER F/V ADRIFT VICINITY 21-43.4N 114-50.9E AT 280525Z NOV. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 05 DEC.
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
17 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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 lifeboat adrift in vicinity 21-12.3N 113-20.6E at 050248Z apr2022-04-05
- Derelict M/V hyun jin, 65 meters long adrift in vicinity of 18-53.6N 115-02.1E at 240920Z nov2020-11-24
- Derelict 20 meter F/V you sheng 1, adrift in vicinity 19-19.3N 113-00.8E2019-03-14
- Derelict 20 meter F/V you sheng 1, adrift in vicinity 20-14.37N 115-45.69E2019-03-08
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in vicinity 20-45.8N 112-05.4E at 110830Z oct2017-10-11
- Derelict vessel kekada partially submerged and adrift in 20-37.4N 115-40.3E at 061530Z nov2011-11-06
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 21:40Z; 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.