Derelicts

Derelict 30 foot F/V, green and yellow hull adrift in vicinity 09-17N 083-24E at 211232Z sep

Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 2750/20

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2020-09-24 13:01Z

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) · MRCC COLOMBO 211243Z SEP 20.. Issued 2020-09-21 13:01Z. 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
Bay of Bengal. The parsed report position is 9.283, 83.400. 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 Bay of Bengal →

issued
2020-09-21 13:01Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2020-09-24 13:01Z
authority
MRCC COLOMBO 211243Z SEP 20.
issued by
MRCC COLOMBO
sea
Bay of Bengal
position
9.283, 83.400
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

BAY OF BENGAL.
SRI LANKA.
DNC 03.
1. DERELICT 30 FOOT F/V, GREEN AND YELLOW HULL
   ADRIFT IN VICINITY 09-17N 083-24E
   AT 211232Z SEP. REPORTS TO MRCC COLOMBO,
   PHONE: 941 1244 5368,
   FAX: 941 1244 1454, 941 1244 9718,
   E-MAIL: NHQDNO@YAHOO.COM,
   MRCCCOLOMBO@GMAIL.COM.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 241301Z SEP 20.

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.
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.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels

50 within 180 nm since 2005 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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24

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

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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 2026-10-02 02:26Z; 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.