Derelict 35 foot F/V, yellow and white hull, adrift in 06-59.14N 082-50.74E at 110336Z dec
Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 3545/22
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2022-12-11 13:05Z
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 0/22 111101Z DEC 22.. Issued 2022-12-11 11:23Z. 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 6.986, 82.846. 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
Current notices and reporting history in the Bay of Bengal →
- issued
- 2022-12-11 11:23Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2022-12-14 11:19Z
- authority
- MRCC COLOMBO 0/22 111101Z DEC 22.
- issued by
- MRCC COLOMBO
- sea
- Bay of Bengal
- position
- 6.986, 82.846
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
BAY OF BENGAL. SRI LANKA. DNC 03. 1. DERELICT 35 FOOT F/V, YELLOW AND WHITE HULL, ADRIFT IN 06-59.14N 082-50.74E AT 110336Z DEC. REPORTS TO MRCC COLOMBO, PHONE: 941 1244 5368, FAX: 941 1244 1454, 941 1244 9718, E-MAIL: NHQDNO@YAHOO.COM, MRCCCOLOMBO@GMAIL.COM. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 141119Z DEC 22.
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.
- MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre)
- A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
- 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
72 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.
- 190 meter M/V paras adrift in 08-56.00N 081-05.00E at 200600Z mar2024-03-20
- F/V, yellow, white and blue hull, possibly disabled due to collision in 09-12N 083-24E at 270030Z feb2024-02-27
- 40 foot F/V sachin 08, blue and yellow hull, disabled and adrift due to engine failure in 06-38.00N…2023-10-05
- 330 meter M/V serene 01, disabled and adrift due to engine failure in 06-04.00N 085-21.00E at 080100Z sep2023-09-08
- M/V grace disabled and adrift due to fishing net entangled in propeller in 08-42.00N 085-18.00E2023-07-16
- M/V grace not under command in vicinity 08-04.00N 085-00.00E at 151900Z jul2023-07-15
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
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-24 23:09Z; 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.