Vessel partially submerged and adrift in 07-16.4N 109-00.0E
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 4565/18
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2018-12-27 11:06Z
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) · HAIPHONG RADIO 241059Z DEC 18.. Issued 2018-12-24 11:06Z. 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 7.273, 109.000. 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 China Sea →
- issued
- 2018-12-24 11:06Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2018-12-27 11:06Z
- authority
- HAIPHONG RADIO 241059Z DEC 18.
- issued by
- HAIPHONG RADIO
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 7.273, 109.000
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH CHINA SEA. DNC 11. 1. VESSEL PARTIALLY SUBMERGED AND ADRIFT IN 07-16.4N 109-00.0E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 271106Z 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.
- 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
73 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.
- M/V xin ao yuan jian, disabled and adrift due to engine failure in 08-30.25N 108-05.95E at 260117Z jan2023-01-26
- M/V AMR1 disabled and adrift in 10-10.00N 109-11.00E at 091255Z dec2022-12-09
- Vessel adrift in vicinity 08-33.00N 110-33.00E at 071220Z nov2022-11-07
- F/V nt 90974TS and F/V nt 91205TS disabled and adrift due to engine failure in 10-13N 109-18E on 04 apr2022-04-05
- F/V qng 95568 ts disabled and adrift due to engine trouble in 08-07N 111-04E2021-10-31
- F/V nt 90414 ts, disabled and adrift due to engine trouble in 09-12N 110-49E at 100145Z apr2021-04-10
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
- Oil rig reported to exists in 07-47.5N 108-12.0EWrecks · 56.9 nm
- Oil rig reported to exists in 07-42.1N 107-55.8EWrecks · 68.7 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 23:00Z; 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.