Items adrift at 230800Z nov: a. derelict vessel, orange hull, in 16-34.15N 085-31.88E
Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 3866/19
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2019-11-28 11:37Z
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 864/19 251000Z NOV 19.. Issued 2019-11-25 11:37Z. 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 16.618, 85.908. 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
- 2019-11-25 11:37Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2019-11-28 11:37Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 864/19 251000Z NOV 19.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Bay of Bengal
- position
- 16.618, 85.908
- 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. ITEMS ADRIFT AT 230800Z NOV:
A. DERELICT VESSEL, ORANGE HULL,
IN 16-34.15N 085-31.88E.
B. TWO CONTAINERS IN 16-29.43N 086-06.36E.
C. ONE CONTAINER IN 16-47.73N 086-05.17E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 281137Z NOV 19.
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.
- Adrift
- Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
- 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.
- Derelict
- An abandoned vessel still afloat and drifting, with no one on board.
- 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.
- Lost containers
- Shipping containers lost overboard, reported floating or semi-submerged, often in groups after a single incident.
- 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
21 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 F/V oshan putha adrift in 16-10N 087-44E at 310327Z oct2019-11-01
- F/V subodha dinanthi 2 adrift in 14-40N 086-14E at 100330Z sep2018-09-10
- Derelict F/V BITUNI-1 adrift in 15-00N 087-00E at 020630Z sep2018-09-04
- Derelict F/V kabila putha 5 adrift in 14-50N 087-10E at 300330Z aug2018-08-30
- Derelict F/V SAMIDITHA2 adrift in 13-57N 086-36E at 290230Z aug2018-08-29
- Derelict F/V SAMIDITHA2 adrift in 14-22N 087-13E at 280230Z aug2018-08-28
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 2026-10-01 21:02Z; 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.