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F/V amazonas, blue hull, 29 persons onboard, adrift and requesting assistance in 10-17.92N 077-11.05W on 30…

Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 895/21

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2021-10-08 11:55Z

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) · COLOMBIA 279/21 022137Z OCT 21.. Issued 2021-10-02 21:38Z. 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: Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 10.299, -77.184. 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: 2021-10-02 21:38Z
status: Archived notice
authority: COLOMBIA 279/21 022137Z OCT 21.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA IV
issued by: COLOMBIA
sea: Caribbean Sea
position: 10.299, -77.184
vessel: F/V AMAZONAS · 2 messages
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

CARIBBEAN SEA.
COLOMBIA.
F/V AMAZONAS, BLUE HULL, 29 PERSONS ONBOARD,
ADRIFT AND REQUESTING ASSISTANCE
IN 10-17.92N 077-11.05W ON 30 SEP.
VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP
LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
REPORTS TO CARTAGENA HARBOR MASTER OR
ANY COASTAL RADIO STATION.

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.
Keep a sharp lookout: A request to every ship in the area to watch for the vessel, people or object described.
Assist if possible: The second half of the standard rescue request: ships able to help are asked to do so.

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Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)

56 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.

Man overboard from vessel in 08-58.19N 079-22.15W2024-02-01
Derelict M/V yasida capsized and adrift in 11-15.26N 074-17.65W2023-04-08
M/V sea voyager, nine persons on board, sank2023-01-20
Colombia to panama2022-07-31
Vessel vanett, two persons on board, taking on water in 12-17.30N 078-51.37W2022-07-04
Search and rescue operations in progress until further notice in area bound by 08-36.01N 079-36.38W,…2021-09-15

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

M/V roswal sank in 08-40.88N 076-50.00WWrecks · 99.3 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 21:21Z; source collection times vary.

Incidents

Search-and-rescue broadcasts, published only once a case has been closed for 30 days: groundings, sinkings, capsizes, fires, man overboard, overdue vessels. Nothing here is live. All current distress & casualty cases (archived) →

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