Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in 16-44.6N 074-34.2W
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 118/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-02-14 23:15Z
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) · JAMAICA COAST GUARD 111430Z FEB 15.. Issued 2015-02-11 23:15Z. 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 16.743, -74.570. 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
- 2015-02-11 23:15Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2015-02-14 23:15Z
- authority
- JAMAICA COAST GUARD 111430Z FEB 15.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- JAMAICA COAST GUARD
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 16.743, -74.570
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CARIBBEAN SEA. 1. DERELICT VESSEL PARTIALLY SUBMERGED AND ADRIFT IN 16-44.6N 074-34.2W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 142315Z FEB 15.
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
18 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 vessel, white and blue hull, adrift in vicinity 14-22.40N 073-18.90W at 160321Z dec2023-12-16
- Derelict vessel adrift in vicnity 14-39.00N 073-30.00W2023-03-13
- Derelict S/V falia adrift in vicinity 14-03.10N 074-12.50W2022-07-07
- Derelict S/V rapscallion adrift in 16-27.00N 072-54.20W at 011417Z jul2022-07-02
- Derelict vessel dona maria adrift in 14-57.42N 073-08.71W2022-04-15
- Derelict vessel, white hull, partially submerged, adrift in vicinity 18-15.07N 076-25.11W2021-03-19
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 00:55Z; 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.