Derelict 53 foot S/V medusa, white hull with blue stripe, adrift vicinity 33-16N 049-26W at 241436Z may
North Atlantic Ocean · NAVAREA IV 182/02
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2002-05-31 00:00Z
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) · COMLANTAREA COGARD 241659Z MAY 02. Issued 2002-05-24 17:57Z. 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
- North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 33.267, -49.433. 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
- 2002-05-24 17:57Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- COMLANTAREA COGARD 241659Z MAY 02
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- COMLANTAREA COGARD
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 33.267, -49.433
- vessel
- S/V MEDUSA · 2 messages
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. DERELICT 53 FOOT S/V MEDUSA, WHITE HULL WITH BLUE STRIPE, ADRIFT VICINITY 33-16N 049-26W AT 241436Z MAY. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 31 MAY.
Reading this warning
- Derelict
- An abandoned vessel still afloat and drifting, with no one on board.
- 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.
- 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
7 within 180 nm since 2002 · 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.
- Debris from vessel adrift in vicinity 31-22.75N 047-38.85W2020-04-21
- S/V kalinka III disabled and adrift in 35-12.88N 047-43.03W at 232154Z may2017-05-23
- Derelict 35 foot S/V wolf hound, white hull, adrift in 34-57.4N 047-29.6W at 131617Z sep2013-09-14
- 35 foot S/V wolf hound disabled and adrift in 34-57.4N 047-29.6W2013-09-13
- Derelict 23 foot F/V, white hull, partially submerged and adrift vicinity 36-00.0N 050-07.7W2003-05-27
- 20 foot M/V, white and blue hull, partially submerged and adrift in 35-20.8N 047-29.6W at 071220Z aug2002-08-07
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 07:33Z; 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.