Derelict barge saraswati adrift in vicinity 18-52.92N 072-46.53E at 062130Z oct
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 3208/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-10-11 10:25Z
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 880/23 081003Z OCT 23.. Issued 2023-10-08 10:30Z. 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 18.882, 72.775. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2023-10-08 10:30Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-10-11 10:25Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 880/23 081003Z OCT 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 18.882, 72.775
- vessel
- BARGE SARASWATI
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA. INDIA. DNC 03. 1. DERELICT BARGE SARASWATI ADRIFT IN VICINITY 18-52.92N 072-46.53E AT 062130Z OCT. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 111025Z OCT 23.
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
48 within 180 nm since 2001 · 1 in the last 12 months · 1 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 M/V al jafzia aground in 19-11.50N 072-46.40E2026-07-21
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in 19-44.90N 072-09.00E 070830Z aug2023-08-07
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in vicinity 19-35.41N 070-23.67E at 091030Z jan2023-01-10
- Derelict F/V tulsi devi anchored in 20-30.00N 072-44.00E at 170355Z aug2022-08-18
- Derelict F/V hareshwari adrift in 18-19.30N 072-57.30E at 092002Z aug2022-08-11
- Derelict barge adrift in 17-21.57N 073-02.12E AT170500Z jul2022-07-18
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-26 14:48Z; 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.