Derelict ten foot long tank adrift in 07-41.86N 135-16.15E
North Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 2619/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-09-17 07:21Z
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) · COMCOGARD SECTOR GUAM 430/12 140512Z SEP 12.. Issued 2012-09-14 07:21Z. 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 7.698, 135.269. 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 North Pacific Ocean →
- issued
- 2012-09-14 07:21Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2012-09-17 07:21Z
- authority
- COMCOGARD SECTOR GUAM 430/12 140512Z SEP 12.
- issued by
- COMCOGARD SECTOR GUAM
- sea
- North Pacific Ocean
- position
- 7.698, 135.269
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC. PALAU. 1. DERELICT TEN FOOT LONG TANK ADRIFT IN 07-41.86N 135-16.15E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 170721Z SEP 12.
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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
8 within 180 nm since 1996 · 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 20 foot raft adrift in vicinity 09-09.6N 135-00.3E at 250250Z oct2021-10-25
- Derelict seven meter F/V angel 1, blue hull, adrift in 06-05.3N 134-24.9E at 260200Z may2018-05-26
- Derelict 70 foot F/V, white and blue hull, partially submerged and adrift in 05-21N 133-55E2018-03-15
- Derelict 45 meter M/V partially submerged and adrift vicinity 07-31N 132-43.9E at 062131Z sep2011-09-06
- Derelict F/V partially submerged and adrift in 06-13.6N 137-48.8E at 181340Z jul2011-07-19
- Derelict vessel half sunk vicinity 05-42.6N 135-03.4E2006-06-22
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
- Malakal harbor NR.1 lighted bouy, 07-19.17N 134-27.17E, missingNav aids · 53.6 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 00:53Z; 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.