Derelicts

Debris from wrecked vessel adrift in vicinity 12-14.62N 081-50.63W

Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 15/22

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2022-01-09 20:26Z

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 2/22 062024Z JAN 22.. Issued 2022-01-06 20:26Z. 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 12.244, -81.844. 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
2022-01-06 20:26Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2022-01-09 20:26Z
authority
COLOMBIA 2/22 062024Z JAN 22.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA IV
issued by
COLOMBIA
sea
Caribbean Sea
position
12.244, -81.844
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA.
COLOMBIA.
1. DEBRIS FROM WRECKED VESSEL ADRIFT
   IN VICINITY 12-14.62N 081-50.63W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 092026Z JAN 22.

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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels

15 within 180 nm since 2000 · 1 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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

Worldwide in the collected sources

6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 20:27Z; 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.