Derelicts

Six meter derelict vessel, white hull, adrift in vicinity 20-21.50S 169-49.90E at 210715Z dec

South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 3649/22

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2022-12-24 13:47Z

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) · AVURNAV NOUMEA 19/22 211336Z DEC 22.. Issued 2022-12-21 13:48Z. 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 Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is -20.358, 169.832. 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 Pacific Ocean →

issued: 2022-12-21 13:48Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2022-12-24 13:47Z
authority: AVURNAV NOUMEA 19/22 211336Z DEC 22.
issued by: AVURNAV NOUMEA
sea: South Pacific Ocean
position: -20.358, 169.832
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN SOUTH PACIFIC.
VANUATU.
DNC 06.
1. SIX METER DERELICT VESSEL, WHITE HULL, ADRIFT
   IN VICINITY 20-21.50S 169-49.90E AT 210715Z DEC.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 241347Z 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.
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

23 within 180 nm since 2010 · 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 aground in 22-02.2S 168-38.5E2019-10-31
Derelict vessel aground in 22-02.2S 168-38.5E2019-08-30
Derelict vessel aground in 22-02.2S 168-38.5E2019-06-02
Derelict vessel aground in 22-02.2S 168-38.5E2019-02-28
Derelict vessel aground in 22-02.2S 168-38.5E2018-12-31
Derelict vessel aground in 22-02.2S 168-38.5E2018-10-31

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

4 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-25 17:51Z; 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.