M/V montevideo express disabled and adrift vicinity 20-30N 084-20W on 26 jan
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 83/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-01-31 07:15Z
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) · MEXICO 272049Z JAN 15.. Issued 2015-01-28 07:05Z. 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 20.500, -84.333. 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
- 2015-01-28 07:05Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2015-01-31 07:15Z
- authority
- MEXICO 272049Z JAN 15.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- MEXICO
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 20.500, -84.333
- vessel
- M/V MONTEVIDEO EXPRESS
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA. 1. M/V MONTEVIDEO EXPRESS DISABLED AND ADRIFT VICINITY 20-30N 084-20W ON 26 JAN. CAUTION ADVISED. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 310715Z JAN 15.
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.
- 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
25 within 180 nm since 2001 · 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 vessel adrift in vicinity 21-35.50N 084-59.40W at 241200Z apr2023-04-24
- Derelict 30 foot S/V tulaichean 2 adrift in vicinity 22-00.20N 086-05.50W at 192058Z mar2023-03-20
- 20 foot vessel, white hull, disabled and adrift in 22-52.35N 084-52.82W2022-09-02
- Western caribbean sea 1. derelict barge mgm 3001, grey hull, reported partially submerged and adrift in…2021-11-02
- Derelict barge, red hull, reported partially submerged and adrift in 20-18.7N 083-35.5W at 292100Z oct2021-10-30
- Derelict tug adrift in 22-55.22N 083-32.2W2018-08-16
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
6 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 04:03Z; 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.