A derelict fishing vessel with trailing nets drifts in the Eastern Indian Ocean at 04-22.50S 080-28.20E as of 28 September, with the warning cancelled 1 October.
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 2809/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-09-28 16:45Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-09-28 11:02Z. First collected 2026-09-28 19:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-28 21:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is -4.375, 80.470. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2026-09-28 11:02Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-10-01 11:02Z
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -4.375, 80.470
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-28 19:02Z
Original warning text
EASTERN INDIAN OCEAN. 1. DERELICT F/V WITH TRAILING NETS ADRIFT IN 04-22.50S 080-28.20E AT 280615Z SEP. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 011102Z OCT 26.
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
3 within 180 nm since 2021 · 1 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.
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 2026-09-28 21:19Z; 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.