Derelict 28 foot S/V a te soue, red hull, adrift in 18-04.7S 150-41.1W at 190720Z feb
South Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 675/18
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2018-02-22 13:57Z
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) · AVURNAV PAPEETE 8/18 191349Z FEB 18.. Issued 2018-02-19 13:57Z. 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 Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is -18.078, -150.685. 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 Pacific Ocean →
- issued
- 2018-02-19 13:57Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2018-02-22 13:57Z
- authority
- AVURNAV PAPEETE 8/18 191349Z FEB 18.
- issued by
- AVURNAV PAPEETE
- sea
- South Pacific Ocean
- position
- -18.078, -150.685
- vessel
- S/V A TE SOUE
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH PACIFIC. FRENCH POLYNESIA. DNC 06. 1. DERELICT 28 FOOT S/V A TE SOUE, RED HULL, ADRIFT IN 18-04.7S 150-41.1W AT 190720Z FEB. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 221357Z FEB 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.
- 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.
- 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
15 within 180 nm since 2010 · 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 46 foot M/V poe iti VI semi-submerged and adrift in 17-20.00S 150-27.00W at 031057Z may2024-05-03
- Derelict ten meter S/V, blue hull, adrift in 17-56.28S 149-38.03W at 101117Z dec2023-12-11
- Derelict seven meter F/V, blue hull, adrift in 17-27.14S 150-03.14W at 010805Z nov2023-11-01
- 40 foot catamaran partially submerged and adrift in 17-52.00S 149-28.00W at 102200Z oct2022-10-11
- Derelict 40 foot S/V poeme, partially submerged in 17-53.43S 149-29.09W at 020230Z oct 222022-10-03
- 40 foot vessel poeme, partially submerged and adrift in 17-31.07S 150-17.00W at 200200Z sep2022-09-20
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
- Pointe aroa light 17-28.40S 149-46.50W unlitNav aids · 63.5 nm
- Pointe venus light 17-29.70S 149-29.66W unlitNav aids · 76.6 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 02:26Z; 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.