Derelict 67 meter barge adrift in 20-32.9N 119-32.6E at 220832Z dec
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 4159/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-12-23 14:04Z
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 XI 961/15 220944Z DEC 15.. Issued 2015-12-22 10:23Z. 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
- South China Sea. The parsed report position is 20.548, 119.543. 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
- Cancel HYDROPAC 4159/15 and this msg, barge removedlater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the South China Sea →
- issued
- 2015-12-22 10:23Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2015-12-25 10:23Z
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 961/15 220944Z DEC 15.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 20.548, 119.543
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC. PHILIPPINE SEA. DNC 23. 1. DERELICT 67 METER BARGE ADRIFT IN 20-32.9N 119-32.6E AT 220832Z DEC. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 251023Z DEC 15.
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.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
25 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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.
- F/V py 96327 ts, disabled and adrift, one crewman injured in 18-06N 119-25E at 300315Z jul2017-07-30
- F/V py 91049 ts disabled and flooding in 19-10N 119-25E at 240025Z dec2016-12-24
- Derelict 67 meter barge adrift in 21-03.0N 122-20.6E at 190032Z dec2015-12-19
- Derelict vessel adrift vicinity 18-54.1N 117-02.9E at 170651Z sep2015-09-17
- Derelict vessel adrift vicinity 19-32.8N 117-28.2E at 170310Z sep2015-09-17
- Derelict 25 foot F/V, green hull with blue stripe, adrift vicinity 21-21.4N 120-09.0E2015-03-26
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 05:05Z; 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.