Derelict F/V adrift in vicinity 11-31N 088-18E
Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 3551/17
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2017-10-20 07:18Z
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 732/17 161200Z OCT 17.. Issued 2017-10-17 07:18Z. 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 11.517, 88.300. 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
- 2017-10-17 07:18Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2017-10-20 07:18Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 732/17 161200Z OCT 17.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Bay of Bengal
- position
- 11.517, 88.300
- 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 F/V ADRIFT IN VICINITY 11-31N 088-18E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 200718Z OCT 17.
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.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
24 within 180 nm since 2002 · 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 neil PUTHA1 adrift in 12-30N 086-16E at 090930Z jan2020-01-13
- F/V neil PUTHA1 adrift in 12-30N 086-16E at 090930Z jan2020-01-10
- Derelict F/V JAYAWE6 adrift in 12-10N 085-28E2019-12-14
- Derelict F/V sandeepani, red and green hull, adrift in 09-55N 086-37E at 120315Z apr2019-04-12
- F/V sandeepani adrift in vicinity 10-08N 086-50E at 110330Z apr2019-04-11
- Derelict F/V sachini 2 adrift in 11-47N 086-24E at 110330Z feb2019-02-11
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 06:35Z; 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.