F/V chethiya putha adrift in 09-06N 069-16E at 220330 dec
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 4558/18
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2018-12-26 10:12Z
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 880/18 231002Z DEC 18.. Issued 2018-12-23 10:12Z. 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
- Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 9.100, 69.267. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2018-12-23 10:12Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2018-12-26 10:12Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 880/18 231002Z DEC 18.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 9.100, 69.267
- vessel
- F/V CHETHIYA PUTHA
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
ARABIAN SEA. DNC 03. 1. F/V CHETHIYA PUTHA ADRIFT IN 09-06N 069-16E AT 220330 DEC. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 261012Z DEC 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.
- 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
14 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.
- F/V doni baba 02 disabled and adrift due to engine failure in 07-54.00N 069-59.00E2024-03-18
- F/V monica disabled and adrift due to engine failure in 11-23.35N 070-38.78E2022-11-25
- Derelict F/V lorenso putha 01 adrift in 07-14N 069-00E at 100300Z feb2020-02-10
- F/V disabled and adrift in 08-20.50N 070-45.55E2019-10-28
- Derelict F/V ruhunu kumari adrift in 08-00N 069-36E at 051230Z sep2019-09-06
- Derelict F/V sea QUEEN2 adrift in 06-20N 069-30E at 230435Z jan2019-01-23
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 2026-09-24 23:09Z; 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.