Derelict 150 ft barge adrift in 37-35.9N 060-42.0W at 141245Z dec
North Atlantic Ocean · NAVAREA IV 430/99
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 1999-12-21 06:00Z
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 141522Z DEC 99. Issued 1999-12-14 19:02Z. 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 37.598, -60.700. 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
- 1999-12-14 19:02Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- COMLANTAREA 141522Z DEC 99
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- COMLANTAREA
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 37.598, -60.700
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. DERELICT 150 FT BARGE ADRIFT IN 37-35.9N 060-42.0W AT 141245Z DEC. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 21 DEC.
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
8 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.
- Derelict 36 foot S/V fou de vewt, white hull, adrift in 39-01N 063-19W at 312038Z oct2018-10-31
- Derelict 27 foot vessel alba, white hull, adrift in vicinity 39-32.4N 058-31.6W2018-06-15
- Derelict 30 foot S/V prodigal adrift vicinity 37-24N 057-35W2015-06-10
- Derelict 36 foot vessel adrift in 36-48.74N 061-00.00W2013-08-20
- Derelict 34 foot S/V romarin II, white hull, adrift vicinity 39-23.9N 063-33.1W2013-05-13
- Derelict 34 foot S/V romarin II, white hull, adrift vicinity 39-23.9N 063-33.1W2013-05-13
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
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 03:26Z; 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.