Derelict 26 foot vessel, white hull, partially submerged and adrift in 16-22.29N 061-36.46W
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 1103/22
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2022-10-22 14:16Z
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) · AVURNAV FORT DE FRANCE 1102/22 191102Z OCT 22.. Issued 2022-10-19 14:22Z. 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 16.372, -61.608. 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
- 2022-10-19 14:22Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2022-10-22 14:16Z
- authority
- AVURNAV FORT DE FRANCE 1102/22 191102Z OCT 22.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- AVURNAV FORT DE FRANCE
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 16.372, -61.608
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA. GUADELOUPE. 1. DERELICT 26 FOOT VESSEL, WHITE HULL, PARTIALLY SUBMERGED AND ADRIFT IN 16-22.29N 061-36.46W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 221416Z OCT 22.
Reading this warning
- Derelict
- An abandoned vessel still afloat and drifting, with no one on board.
- Semi-submerged
- Floating at or just below the surface, so hard to see by eye or radar.
- 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
134 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.
- Martinique2024-07-10
- Derelict 10 meter vessel, blue hull, adrift in 17-45.93N 062-29.73W at 152118Z jan2024-01-16
- Derelict four meter S/V, white hull, adrift in vicinity 14-33.90N 061-06.90W at 261908Z nov2023-11-27
- Derelict vessel g family adrift in 14-09.05N 061-21.99W at 102235Z nov2023-11-11
- Derelict vessel g family adrift in 14-09.05N 061-21.99W at 102235Z nov2023-11-11
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in 18-09.61N 063-10.11W at 131351Z aug2023-08-13
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
- Ilet du gosier light 16-11.90N 061-29.44W at reduced intensityOther · 12.4 nm
- Pointe du vieux fort light 15-56.90N 061-42.46WNav aids · 26.1 nm
- Carenage range rear light 14-36.32N 061-03.74W changed to oc (2) g 50 meters 9 milesNav aids · 110.6 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
4 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 22:47Z; 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.