Derelicts

Derelict vessel luna, white and green hull, adrift in 28-20.42S 036-24.54E

Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 490/10

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2010-03-16 20:06Z

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) · NAVAREA VII 45/10 131748Z MAR 10.. Issued 2010-03-13 20:22Z. 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 -28.340, 36.409. 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 Indian Ocean →

issued: 2010-03-13 20:22Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2010-03-16 20:06Z
authority: NAVAREA VII 45/10 131748Z MAR 10.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA VII · named as the source of this relay
sea: Indian Ocean
position: -28.340, 36.409
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN.
SOUTH AFRICA.
1. DERELICT VESSEL LUNA, WHITE AND GREEN HULL,
   ADRIFT IN 28-20.42S 036-24.54E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 162006Z MAR.

Reading this warning

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.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels

18 within 180 nm since 2003 · 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 falbala disabled and sailing without navigational lights2021-11-12
Derelict vessel gold gemini adrift in 30-50S 037-46E2019-05-02
Vessel gold gemini, disabled and adrift in 30-29S 038-05E2019-04-30
Derelict F/V hsiang fuh no 6 adrift in vicinity 28-25.3S 037-18.7E2017-07-13
Derelict F/V hsiang fun no 6 adrift in vicinity 27-59.0S 038-33.6E2017-07-09
M/V termeh disabled and adrift in 26-44S 035-17E2017-05-23

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

6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 10:11Z; 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.