Derelicts

Derelict M/V viva 109 adrift in vicinity 00-04N 092-25E at 200530Z nov

Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 3344/21

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2021-11-23 06:20Z

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) · MRCC COLOMBO 200548Z NOV 21.. Issued 2021-11-20 06:20Z. 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 0.067, 92.417. 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

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.

  1. HYDROPAC 3294/212021-11-15 · Archived notice
  2. HYDROPAC 3306/212021-11-16 · Archived notice
  3. HYDROPAC 3322/212021-11-17 · Archived notice
  4. HYDROPAC 3344/21 · this notice2021-11-20 · Archived notice
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Current notices and reporting history in the Indian Ocean →

issued
2021-11-20 06:20Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2021-11-23 06:20Z
authority
MRCC COLOMBO 200548Z NOV 21.
issued by
MRCC COLOMBO
sea
Indian Ocean
position
0.067, 92.417
vessel
M/V VIVA 109 · 4 messages
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

NORTHERN INDIAN OCEAN.
DNC 03.
1. DERELICT M/V VIVA 109 ADRIFT IN VICINITY
   00-04N 092-25E AT 200530Z NOV.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 3322/21.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 230620Z NOV 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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROPAC
The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels

8 within 180 nm since 2014 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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21

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

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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 03:26Z; 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.