Derelict vessel reported adrift in vicinity 05-19.0S 078-50.4E at 160546Z oct
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 2949/21
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2021-10-19 10:43Z
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 714/21 161023Z OCT 21.. Issued 2021-10-16 10:43Z. 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
- Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is -5.317, 78.840. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2021-10-16 10:43Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2021-10-19 10:43Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 714/21 161023Z OCT 21.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -5.317, 78.840
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
INDIAN OCEAN. DNC 03. 1. DERELICT VESSEL REPORTED ADRIFT IN VICINITY 05-19.0S 078-50.4E AT 160546Z OCT. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 191043Z OCT 21.
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.
- 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
6 within 180 nm since 2016 · 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.
- Derelict F/V with trailing nets adrift in 04-22.50S 080-28.20E at 280615Z sep2026-09-28
- Derelict ten meter vessel, blue hull, adrift in vicinity 06-07.00S 078-00.13E at 170420Z may2021-05-17
- Derelict ten meter vessel, blue hull, adrift in vicinity 05-49S 077-48E at 140500Z may2021-05-14
- 13 meter F/V sara, green, blue and yellow hull, disabled and adrift vicinity 02-28S 078-00E at 240045Z sep2016-09-24
- Derelict F/V lak rajina adrift vicinity 05-07S 077-05E on 29 jan2016-02-02
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 2026-10-02 05:05Z; 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.