Derelict vessel, blue hull with red stripe, partially submerged and adrift in vicinity 20-24.2N 068-44.1W
North Atlantic Ocean · NAVAREA IV 46/21
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2021-01-18 20:52Z
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) · COMCOGARD SECTOR SAN JUAN 152032Z JAN 21.. Issued 2021-01-15 20:52Z. 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 20.403, -68.735. 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
- 2021-01-15 20:52Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2021-01-18 20:52Z
- authority
- COMCOGARD SECTOR SAN JUAN 152032Z JAN 21.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- COMCOGARD SECTOR SAN JUAN
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 20.403, -68.735
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 1. DERELICT VESSEL, BLUE HULL WITH RED STRIPE, PARTIALLY SUBMERGED AND ADRIFT IN VICINITY 20-24.2N 068-44.1W. REPORTS TO COMCOGARD SECTOR SAN JUAN, PHONE: 787 289 2041, E-MAIL: SSJCC@USCG.MIL. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 182052Z JAN 21.
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
10 within 180 nm since 2008 · 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.
- Vessel disabled and adrift in 20-22.04N 067-28.05W2023-08-16
- Derelict 20 foot M/V opiquette 2, white hull adrift in vicinity 21-06.00N 067-25.00W2022-11-17
- Derelict 28 foot vessel adrift in vicinity 20-36.73N 066-57.60W2022-11-16
- Derelict 35 foot S/V dismasted and adrift in 19-54.47N 065-50.00W at 190230Z jan2021-01-20
- Three persons overboard from 17 foot vessel adrift in 19-21.5N 068-24.8W2020-02-23
- 36 foot S/V dismasted and adrift due to engine failure in 22-19.5N 066-28.2W at 170050Z feb2014-02-17
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
- Due to hurricane erin, lateral buoys removed: a. buoy 1 19-10.61N 069-16.51WNav aids · 78.9 nm
- Cabo engano lighthouse 18-36.80N 068-19.50W unlitNav aids · 109.9 nm
- Puerto plata light 19-48.2N 070-41.7W unlitNav aids · 116.2 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 10:38Z; 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.