Derelicts

Barge adrift in 04-40.8S 114-30.0E on 25 mar

Java Sea · HYDROPAC 979/19

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2019-03-28 12:33Z

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 XI 178/19 251027Z MAR 19.. Issued 2019-03-25 12:33Z. 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: Java Sea. The parsed report position is -4.680, 114.500. 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 Java Sea →

issued: 2019-03-25 12:33Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2019-03-28 12:33Z
authority: NAVAREA XI 178/19 251027Z MAR 19.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea: Java Sea
position: -4.680, 114.500
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

JAVA SEA.
INDONESIA.
DNC 04.
1. BARGE ADRIFT IN 04-40.8S 114-30.0E ON 25 MAR.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 281233Z MAR 19.

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.
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

7 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 rmn 383 adrift in vicinity 04-02.22S 117-04.51E2021-12-08
Derelict barge adrift in 06-52.0S 114-35.3E at 080358Z dec2020-12-08
Derelict vessel adrift in 05-59.6S 115-31.7E at 210806Z jul2019-07-21
Derelict 100 meter barge adrift in 05-48.0S 113-43.8E2017-12-03
Derelict barge mlc 2302 adrift vicinity 05-33.7S 112-29.4E2000-01-02
M/V baik tiga waterlogged and adrift in 05-29S 113-10E at 142354Z aug1999-08-15

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

Sunken wreck, exists in 04-32-31.8S 114-01-36.0EWrecks · 29.5 nm
Sunken wreck, exists in 04-14-42S 113-44-18EWrecks · 52.5 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 03:00Z; 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.