Single handed atlantic crossing in drifting three meter barrel-shaped vessel, orange hull, in vicinity…
North Atlantic Ocean · NAVAREA IV 215/19
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2019-03-17 10:08Z
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) · SFH 160930Z MAR 19.. Issued 2019-03-16 10:38Z. 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 23.544, -43.854. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2019-03-16 10:38Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- SFH 160930Z MAR 19.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- SFH
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 23.544, -43.854
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORTH ATLANTIC. 1. SINGLE HANDED ATLANTIC CROSSING IN DRIFTING THREE METER BARREL-SHAPED VESSEL, ORANGE HULL, IN VICINITY 23-32.64N 043-51.24W AT 160930Z MAR. VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT AND GIVE A WIDE BERTH. 2. CANCEL NAVAREA IV 212/19.
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.
- 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.
- Keep a sharp lookout
- A request to every ship in the area to watch for the vessel, people or object described.
- Wide berth requested
- Keep well clear — or, when a distance is given ("TWO MILE BERTH REQUESTED"), at least that far away.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- NAVAREA
- One of the 21 ocean areas of the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service, each with a coordinator that broadcasts long-range warnings.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
22 within 180 nm since 2009 · 1 in the last 12 months · 1 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.
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- Single handed atlantic crossing in drifting three meter barrel-shaped vessel, orange hull, in vicinity…2019-03-23
- Single handed atlantic crossing in drifting three meter barrel-shaped vessel, orange hull, in vicinity…2019-03-22
- Single handed atlantic crossing in drifting three meter barrel-shaped vessel, orange hull, in vicinity…2019-03-21
- Single handed atlantic crossing in drifting three meter barrel-shaped vessel, orange hull, in vicinity…2019-03-20
- Single handed atlantic crossing in drifting three meter barrel-shaped vessel, orange hull, in vicinity…2019-03-19
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 22:24Z; source collection times vary.
Other
Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →
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.