Derelict seven meter vessel, green hull, adrift in vicinity 16-05.30N 061-13.92W
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 825/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-07-24 01:52Z
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) · AVURNAV LOCAL FORT DE FRANCE 1081/23 210101Z JUL 23.. Issued 2023-07-21 01:56Z. 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 16.088, -61.232. 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
- 2023-07-21 01:56Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-07-24 01:52Z
- authority
- AVURNAV LOCAL FORT DE FRANCE 1081/23 210101Z JUL 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- AVURNAV LOCAL FORT DE FRANCE
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 16.088, -61.232
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA. GUADELOUPE. 1. DERELICT SEVEN METER VESSEL, GREEN HULL, ADRIFT IN VICINITY 16-05.30N 061-13.92W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 240152Z JUL 23.
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.
- 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
129 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.
- Martinique2024-07-10
- Derelict 10 meter vessel, blue hull, adrift in 17-45.93N 062-29.73W at 152118Z jan2024-01-16
- Derelict four meter S/V, white hull, adrift in vicinity 14-33.90N 061-06.90W at 261908Z nov2023-11-27
- Derelict vessel g family adrift in 14-09.05N 061-21.99W at 102235Z nov2023-11-11
- Derelict vessel g family adrift in 14-09.05N 061-21.99W at 102235Z nov2023-11-11
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in 18-09.61N 063-10.11W at 131351Z aug2023-08-13
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
- Ilet du gosier light 16-11.90N 061-29.44W at reduced intensityOther · 16.3 nm
- Pointe du vieux fort light 15-56.90N 061-42.46WNav aids · 28.7 nm
- Carenage range rear light 14-36.32N 061-03.74W changed to oc (2) g 50 meters 9 milesNav aids · 89.6 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 00:22Z; 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.