Derelict M/V maersk honam adrift in 09-29N 065-44E at 100900Z mar
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 949/18
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2018-03-13 11:58Z
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 202/18 101032Z MAR 18.. Issued 2018-03-10 11:58Z. 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 9.483, 65.733. 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
- Derelict M/V maersk honam adrift in 10-20N 065-49E at 070820Z marcancelled by this notice
- Distress signal received from M/V maersk honam in 10-38N 065-49Ecancelled by this 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 879/182018-03-06 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 915/182018-03-08 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 949/18 · this notice2018-03-10 · Archived notice
- issued
- 2018-03-10 11:58Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2018-03-13 11:58Z
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 202/18 101032Z MAR 18.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 9.483, 65.733
- vessel
- M/V MAERSK HONAM · 4 messages
- 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. DERELICT M/V MAERSK HONAM ADRIFT IN 09-29N 065-44E AT 100900Z MAR. FOUR PERSONS MISSING. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 905/18, 915/18. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 131158Z MAR 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.
- 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 · distress & casualty cases (archived)
37 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.
- 45 foot F/V gagana putha, yellow, blue and white hull, seven persons on board, disabled and adrift due to…2023-09-10
- 45 foot F/V gagana putha, yellow, blue and white hull, seven persons on board, disabled and adrift due to…2023-09-09
- 45 foot F/V gagana putha, yellow, blue and white hull, seven persons on board, disabled and adrift due to…2023-09-06
- 40 foot F/V yamuna, yellow and red hull, seven persons on board, disabled and adrift in 09-08.00N 068-45.00E…2023-06-07
- M/V st2023-05-13
- F/V st2023-05-12
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
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 00:49Z; source collection times vary.
Incidents
Search-and-rescue broadcasts, published only once a case has been closed for 30 days: groundings, sinkings, capsizes, fires, man overboard, overdue vessels. Nothing here is live. All current distress & casualty cases (archived) →
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.