Derelict 100 meter vessel, white hull, partially submerged and adrift in 25-30S 050-49E on 04 jan
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 42/18
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2018-01-07 16:14Z
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 VII 4/18 041606Z JAN 18.. Issued 2018-01-04 16:14Z. 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
- Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is -25.500, 50.817. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2018-01-04 16:14Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2018-01-07 16:14Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VII 4/18 041606Z JAN 18.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -25.500, 50.817
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN. DNC 02. 1. DERELICT 100 METER VESSEL, WHITE HULL, PARTIALLY SUBMERGED AND ADRIFT IN 25-30S 050-49E ON 04 JAN. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 071614Z JAN 18.
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.
- Semi-submerged
- Floating at or just below the surface, so hard to see by eye or radar.
- 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
28 within 180 nm since 2007 · 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 lifeboat adrift in vicinity 25-12.6S 048-00.0E at 171430Z jul2020-07-17
- Derelict F/V, red and white hull, adrift in 24-10.2S 052-26.1E2019-12-27
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in 23-55.9S 050-58.7E2019-12-12
- Debris from sunken vessel partially submerged and adrift in vicinity 27-48.3S 049-05.5E2019-11-25
- Derelict vessel white and blue hull partially submerged and adrift in 27-04.3S 049-00.5E at 241315Z nov2019-11-25
- Derelict M/V yarrawonga, red and white hull, partially submerged and adrift in vicinity 23-10.64S 051-02.46E…2019-11-11
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
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 20:29Z; 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.