Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift vicinity 29-16.5N 049-12.0E at 300630Z mar
Persian Gulf · HYDROPAC 580/03
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2003-04-05 08:50Z
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) · MENAS BAHRAIN 22/03 310000Z MAR 03; NAVAREA IX 76/03 310916Z MAR 03; AUSSAR POR EGC#3485 310403Z MAR 03; AUSSAR POR EGC#3489 310446Z MAR 03; MRCC HONG KONG POR. Issued 2003-03-31 09:20Z. 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
- Persian Gulf. The parsed report position is 29.275, 49.200. 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
- Jeddah dpgs station 21-28.4N 039-08.9E at reduced powercancelled by this notice
- Distress signal received on 121.5 mhz in 11-16S 086-26E at 301628Z marcancelled by this notice
- Vessel madmax, two persons on board, aground in 11-27S 154-24Ecancelled by this notice
- Distress signal received from M/V van don 02 in 19-00N 111-39Ecancelled by this notice
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift vicinity 29-08.8N 049-11.2E at 040615Z aprlater cancellation notice
These reports were linked by category and sea, with positions within 30 nautical miles and issue dates within 30 days of another report's recorded in-force span. Links can extend through other members, so the full group can cover a larger area or period. Proximity does not confirm that they describe one incident.
- HYDROPAC 534/032003-03-25 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 580/03 · this notice2003-03-31 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 602/032003-04-05 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2003-03-31 09:20Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MENAS BAHRAIN 22/03 310000Z MAR 03; NAVAREA IX 76/03 310916Z MAR 03; AUSSAR POR EGC#3485 310403Z MAR 03; AUSSAR POR EGC#3489 310446Z MAR 03; MRCC HONG KONG POR
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
- issued by
- MENAS
- sea
- Persian Gulf
- position
- 29.275, 49.200
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. DERELICT VESSEL PARTIALLY SUBMERGED AND ADRIFT VICINITY 29-16.5N 049-12.0E AT 300630Z MAR. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 471/03(62), STATION RESTORED. 3. CANCEL HYDROPAC 577/03(61), SEARCH SUSPENDED. 4. CANCEL HYDROPAC 578/03(73), PERSONS RESCUED. 5. CANCEL HYDROPAC 579/03(93), VESSEL LOCATED. 6. CANCEL THIS MSG 07 APR.
Reading this warning
- 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.
- 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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROPAC
- The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
- 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
18 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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 barge labroy 216 partially submerged in 29-23.63N 048-52.46E2020-07-23
- Derelict barge adrift vicinity 28-40N 050-03E2016-03-30
- Derelict M/V stolt volar adrift in 026-56.7N 051-08.1E2012-03-21
- Derelict M/V stolt valor on fire and adrift vicinity 27-25.5N 050-26.0E at 150131Z mar2012-03-15
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift vicinity 27-14N 051-07E2008-02-24
- Derelict 119 meter M/V olympias, on fire and adrift in 28-41.1N 050-26.7E at 120400Z may2005-05-12
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
- Navigation prohibited until further notice in area within 600 meters of 29-13.10N 048-44.42ERestricted · 24.3 nm
- Barge dream 1 sank in 29-14.06N 048-41.22EWrecks · 27 nm
- Dangerous wreck marked by buoy in 29-05.49N 048-22.09EWrecks · 45 nm
- Navigation prohibited until further notice in area within 600 meters of 28-52.49N 048-21.63ERestricted · 50.2 nm
- Met tower 28-46.0N 048-26.1E temporarily replaced by yellow buoy, FL(4) 15 sec 5MOther · 50.4 nm
- Survey operations 10 aug until further notice by M/V vision 2 in: a. 29-03.09N 048-10.06ESurveys · 55.2 nm
- Odas buoy relocated to 28-49.63N 050-42.93ENav aids · 84 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-29 21:16Z; 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.