76 meter barge pb 2505 adrift vicinity 16-20.23N 118-21.3E on 10 dec
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 3543/11
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2011-12-22 11:45Z
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) · SPOCC 191053Z DEC 11.. Issued 2011-12-19 11:45Z. 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
- South China Sea. The parsed report position is 16.337, 118.355. 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 South China Sea →
- issued
- 2011-12-19 11:45Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2011-12-22 11:45Z
- authority
- SPOCC 191053Z DEC 11.
- issued by
- SPOCC
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 16.337, 118.355
- vessel
- BARGE PB · 3 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH CHINA SEA. 1. 76 METER BARGE PB 2505 ADRIFT VICINITY 16-20.23N 118-21.3E ON 10 DEC. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 221145Z DEC.
Reading this warning
- 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
24 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 vessel adrift in 18-35N 116-56E on 08 aug2018-08-09
- Derelict 50 meter vessel teras lyza partially submerged and adrift in 13-31.75N 117-18.46E2018-06-14
- F/V py 96327 ts, disabled and adrift, one crewman injured in 18-06N 119-25E at 300315Z jul2017-07-30
- Derelict S/V carlotta adrift in 17-21.88N 115-59.36E at 020950Z apr2017-04-02
- F/V KH99216TS disabled and adrift in 17-18N 117-15E at 060001Z jan2016-01-12
- Derelict lifeboat fortune life, orange hull, adrift in 16-16.0N 117-44.1E at 011015Z dec2015-12-01
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 05:34Z; 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.