F/V sinaw not under command and adrift in 30-08S 040-43E
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 2980/18
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2018-08-15 15:51Z
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 VII 270/18 141504Z AUG 18.. Issued 2018-08-14 16:20Z. 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 -30.133, 40.717. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- F/V sinaw adrift in 30-30S 041-26Elater cancellation notice
These messages are connected by recorded cancellation references. The links establish relationships between notices; they do not by themselves confirm a single object, a continuous track, or recovery.
- HYDROPAC 2980/18 · this notice2018-08-14 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 2994/182018-08-15 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2018-08-14 16:20Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2018-08-17 16:20Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VII 270/18 141504Z AUG 18.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -30.133, 40.717
- vessel
- F/V SINAW · 2 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN. DNC 02. 1. F/V SINAW NOT UNDER COMMAND AND ADRIFT IN 30-08S 040-43E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 171620Z AUG 18.
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.
- 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
19 within 180 nm since 2007 · 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.
- F/V jui der number 16 adrift and on fire in 30-59S 039-27E2021-08-23
- Derelict vessel gold gemini adrift in 30-50S 037-46E2019-05-02
- Vessel gold gemini, disabled and adrift in 30-29S 038-05E2019-04-30
- F/V sinaw adrift in 30-30S 041-26E2018-08-15
- Derelict F/V hsiang fun no 6 adrift in vicinity 27-59.0S 038-33.6E2017-07-09
- Derelict F/V partially submerged and adrift in 28-24.8S 039-37.4E2016-10-09
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 08:58Z; 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.