Derelict F/V on fire and adrift in vicinity 04-29N 079-32W
North Pacific Ocean · NAVAREA XII 105/19
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2019-03-22 03:01Z
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) · USS TORNADO 190206Z MAR 19.. Issued 2019-03-19 03:01Z. 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
- North Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is 4.483, -79.533. 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 North Pacific Ocean →
- issued
- 2019-03-19 03:01Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2019-03-22 03:01Z
- authority
- USS TORNADO 190206Z MAR 19.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XII
- issued by
- USS TORNADO
- sea
- North Pacific Ocean
- position
- 4.483, -79.533
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC. 1. DERELICT F/V ON FIRE AND ADRIFT IN VICINITY 04-29N 079-32W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 220301Z MAR 19.
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.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
10 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.
- Derelict S/V adrift in vicinity 05-45.69N 080-47.08W2023-01-16
- Derelict 35 foot vessel, white and yellow hull, adrift in 06-16.64N 080-13.81W at 2100Z aug2022-08-24
- Vessel disabled in 06-39.90N 080-39.40W at 202330Z jul2022-07-21
- Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 02-51N 081-40W2021-03-02
- Derelict M/V mi valdeza, M/V virgen del cisne III and M/V my raku adrift in 01-41.66N 079-42.12W 2. cancel…2019-08-18
- 50 foot F/V dirfi disabled and adrift vicinity 05-59N 079-30W2016-01-18
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 03:14Z; 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.