Derelict 42 foot M/V adrift in vicinity 14-10.11N 067-17.21W at 300130Z aug
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 994/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-09-02 04:30Z
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 0/23 300428Z AUG 23.. Issued 2023-08-30 04:36Z. 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 14.168, -67.287. 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
- 2023-08-30 04:36Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-09-02 04:30Z
- authority
- DUTCH CARIBBEAN COAST GUARD 0/23 300428Z AUG 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- issued by
- DUTCH CARIBBEAN COAST GUARD
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 14.168, -67.287
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CARIBBEAN SEA. 1. DERELICT 42 FOOT M/V ADRIFT IN VICINITY 14-10.11N 067-17.21W AT 300130Z AUG. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 020430Z SEP 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.
- 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Collected reports in this area · derelict & adrift vessels
31 within 180 nm since 2000 · 1 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 S/V adrift in 14-07.87N 068-20.16W at 080810Z sep2026-09-09
- Derelict 28 foot S/V m'enfin adrift in vicinity 15-06.90N 068-49.60W2023-07-17
- Derelict vessel adrift in vicinity 12-36.09N 068-23.50W at 052353Z jul2023-07-06
- Derelict S/V le siguer, white hull, adrift in 14-42.84N 066-22.75W at 271916Z may2023-05-28
- Derelict vessel partially submerged and adrift in vicinity 14-32.80N 069-53.10W2023-04-25
- Derelict sv adrift in 14-51.72N 065-58.86W at 221605Z apr2023-04-23
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
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
5 derelict & adrift vessels listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-28 19:00Z; 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.