Derelicts

Derelict vessel slfv jaya isuru 3 adrift in 15-44N 089-51E

Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 2982/18

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2018-08-17 23:37Z

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 549/18 141001Z AUG 18.. Issued 2018-08-14 23:37Z. 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 15.733, 89.850. 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: 2018-08-14 23:37Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2018-08-17 23:37Z
authority: NAVAREA VIII 549/18 141001Z AUG 18.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
sea: Bay of Bengal
position: 15.733, 89.850
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

BAY OF BENGAL.
DNC 03.
1. DERELICT VESSEL SLFV JAYA ISURU 3 ADRIFT
   IN 15-44N 089-51E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 172337Z 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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels

14 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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 F/V oshan putha adrift in 16-10N 087-44E at 310327Z oct2019-11-01
F/V NADEESHA5 adrift in 17-16N 090-00E at 140300Z sep2018-09-15
Derelict F/V BITUNI-1 adrift in 15-00N 087-00E at 020630Z sep2018-09-04
Derelict F/V kabila putha 5 adrift in 14-50N 087-10E at 300330Z aug2018-08-30
Derelict F/V SAMIDITHA2 adrift in 14-22N 087-13E at 280230Z aug2018-08-28
Derelict F/V LESHAN4 adrift in 14-00N 087-30E at 280330Z may2018-05-29

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 05:36Z; 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.