Derelict 32 meter M/V dona ramona capsized and adrift in 11-56.9N 068-48.5W
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 929/18
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2018-11-03 22:39Z
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) · DUTCH CARIBBEAN COAST GUARD 311955Z OCT 18.. Issued 2018-10-31 22:39Z. 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 11.948, -68.808. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Derelict 50 foot barge adrift in 11-48.3N 067-54.0W at 300950Z octcancelled by this notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Caribbean Sea →
- issued
- 2018-10-31 22:39Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2018-11-03 22:39Z
- authority
- DUTCH CARIBBEAN COAST GUARD 311955Z OCT 18.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- DUTCH CARIBBEAN COAST GUARD
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 11.948, -68.808
- vessel
- M/V DONA RAMONA
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CARIBBEAN SEA. CURACAO. 1. DERELICT 32 METER M/V DONA RAMONA CAPSIZED AND ADRIFT IN 11-56.9N 068-48.5W. 2. CANCEL NAVAREA 917/18. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 032239Z NOV 18.
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.
- NAVAREA
- One of the 21 ocean areas of the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service, each with a coordinator that broadcasts long-range warnings.
- 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 · distress & casualty cases (archived)
26 within 180 nm since 1997 · 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 grey and black water scooter in vicinity of area bound by 12-44.22N 070-28.88W, 12-20.26N…2023-09-03
- Man overboard from grey and black water scooter in vicinity 12-29.00N 070-09.00W2023-09-02
- F/V santo amaro II , white and red hull, five persons on board, unreported2022-05-16
- F/V santo amaro II , white and red hull, five persons on board, unreported2022-05-15
- 44 foot S/V breeze, blue hull, one person on board, overdue2022-01-14
- Vessel thor, white hull with black stripe, four persons on board, adrift in 11-27.03N 066-20.07W at 071810Z…2021-09-16
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
- Klein curacao light 11-59.4N 068-38.6W unlitNav aids · 10 nm
- Klein bonaire light 12-09.37N 068-19.61W unlitNav aids · 30.9 nm
- Cayo noroeste light 11-13.31N 068-26.28W unlitNav aids · 48.8 nm
- Cabo negro light 11-30.15N 069-33.34W unlitNav aids · 51.4 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 23:22Z; 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) →
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.