A derelict grey inflatable boat is adrift near 34-28.10N 009-41.18W off Casablanca on 30 September at 21:08 UTC in 2026; navigate with caution.
North Atlantic Ocean · NAVAREA II 344/26
What this record establishes
Listed in force
The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.
- Source and dates
- SHOM NAVAREA II via PING (eastern North Atlantic, West Africa) · SHOM — Service hydrographique et océanographique de la Marine (NAVAREA II coordinator). Issued 2026-09-30 22:14Z. First collected 2026-09-30 22:27Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-01 02:42Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 34.468, -9.686. 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 Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2026-09-30 22:14Z
- status
- Listed in force
- authority
- SHOM — Service hydrographique et océanographique de la Marine (NAVAREA II coordinator)
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II
- issued by
- SHOM
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 34.468, -9.686
- nearest port
- Casablanca · 116 nm
- source
- SHOM NAVAREA II via PING (eastern North Atlantic, West Africa) · first seen 2026-09-30 22:27Z
Original warning text
CASABLANCA. DRIFTING HAZARDS. DERELICT VESSEL ADRIFT. GREY INFLATABLE BOAT IN VICINITY 34-28.10N 009-41.18W AT 302108 UTC SEP 26 REPORT ANY INFORMATION TO COORD.NAVAREA2@SHOM.FR NAVIGATE WITH CAUTION
Reading this warning
- Adrift
- Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
- Derelict
- An abandoned vessel still afloat and drifting, with no one on board.
- 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.
Drift estimate · where it probably is now
- estimated
- 34.461, -9.678 · ±10.3 nm
- from report
- 0.6 nm toward 138° over 0.1 d
- current
- 0.5 kn toward 59°
- wind
- 17 kn from 30° · 3% leeway
- method
- stepped 1× at the estimated position · as of 2026-10-01 00:50Z
Surface current (HYCOM, U.S. Navy) plus 3% of the wind (MET Norway). An estimate drawn dashed on the map above — not a position, not for navigation or search and rescue.
Conditions at the position · now
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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
43 within 180 nm since 2000 · 1 in the last 12 months · 1 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 ten meter S/V josephine adrift in vicinity 35-10.40N 012-13.30W at 011317Z jan2024-01-01
- Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 33-33.90N 008-40.70W at 222210Z dec2023-12-23
- S/V thiassi disabled and adrift due to engine failure in vicinity 32-00.40N 011-27.20W2023-07-02
- Derelict S/V adrift in vicinity 32-32.00N 010-49.00W at 211800Z apr2023-04-23
- Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 32-34.00N 010-06.00W at 062200Z mar2023-03-07
- Derelict S/V adrift in 35-47.00N 006-47.00W at 051120Z jan2023-01-05
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 2026-10-01 01:39Z; 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.