Derelicts

M/V smart adrift in vicinity 11-25N 076-17W

Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 1029/19

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2019-11-29 10:25Z

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) · COLOMBIA 266/19 261025Z NOV 19.. Issued 2019-11-26 10:25Z. 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: Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 11.417, -76.283. 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 Caribbean Sea →

issued: 2019-11-26 10:25Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2019-11-29 10:25Z
authority: COLOMBIA 266/19 261025Z NOV 19.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA IV
issued by: COLOMBIA
sea: Caribbean Sea
position: 11.417, -76.283
vessel: M/V SMART
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

CARIBBEAN SEA.
COLOMBIA.
1. M/V SMART ADRIFT IN VICINITY 11-25N 076-17W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 291025Z NOV 19.

Reading this warning

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

21 within 180 nm since 2000 · 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 14 meter S/V moana adrift in vicinity 12-31.46N 073-26.81W2023-08-23
Derelict S/V oya adrift in 11-24.14N 075-37.56W2023-03-30
Derelict 15 meter S/V attitude adjustment adrift in vicinity 10-46.87N 075-48.67W2023-01-22
Derelict S/V sur real, adrift in vicinity 11-08.16N 074-49.09W2022-10-05
Western caribbean sea sailing vessel adrift in 12-14.35N 078-42.98W at 031600Z jul2022-07-03
S/V reported adrift2022-06-11

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

Naval operations 290700Z to 291800Z sep in area bound by 10-18.00N 076-15.00W, 10-48.00N 076-15.00W,…Other · 53.6 nm
RACON at rio magdalena F-2 light 11-06.40N 074-51.30W inoperativeNav aids · 86.1 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all

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