Derelict lifeboat adrift in 18-17.60N 067-51.71E on 26 sep
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 2809/20
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2020-09-30 06:29Z
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 VIII 523/20 270605Z SEP 20.. Issued 2020-09-27 06:29Z. 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
- Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 18.293, 67.862. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2020-09-27 06:29Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2020-09-30 06:29Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 523/20 270605Z SEP 20.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 18.293, 67.862
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA. DNC 03. 1. DERELICT LIFEBOAT ADRIFT IN 18-17.60N 067-51.71E ON 26 SEP. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 300629Z 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.
- 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
10 within 180 nm since 2006 · 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 vessel partially submerged and adrift in vicinity 19-35.41N 070-23.67E at 091030Z jan2023-01-10
- Derelict M/V SEAMEC1, partially submerged and adrift in 18-46N 070-04E at 201400Z jun2019-06-20
- F/V partially submerged and adrift in 15-49.35N 066-10.00E2018-03-21
- Derelict barge partially submerged and adrift in 20-44.26N 067-13.54E2018-03-19
- M/V ss explorer disabled and adrift due to lost propulsion in 19-45.9N 069-07.8E at 160050Z jun2014-06-16
- Derelict vessel, brown hull, adrift vicinity 19-19.5N 069-24.2E at 220515Z feb2012-02-23
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
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-25 21:55Z; 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.