SAR 0158/26
MV ESPIRITO SANTO EXPRESS on fire, abandoned and adrift east of Santa Catarina
Warning text
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No longer in forceCancelled by SAR 0162/26 (archived)
MV ESPIRITO SANTO EXPRESS was set on fire, abandoned and reported adrift east of Santa Catarina. Last reported position 29-13.38S 029-05.25W on 18 Oct 2026. Mariners in the area are requested to sight, assist and inform authorities. This message cancels SAR 0157/26.
See, sight, assist and inform authorities as requested in the message.
Background (general knowledge, not from the warning)
The warning concerns an abandoned merchant vessel reported burning and adrift off the coast of Santa Catarina, a Brazilian state on the southern Atlantic coast. Such incidents present risks of collision, pollution and danger to any persons previously aboard; Brazilian maritime rescue authorities issue SAR warnings to alert passing ships. Mariners in the busy coastal approaches are often asked to keep a lookout and assist if safe to do so; authorities then coordinate rescue and salvage responses.
- Type
- Search and rescue · severity critical
- Feed
- Search and rescueAll warnings of this kind on the map, or as an API feed.
- Location
- East of Santa Catarina (CHART 30 / INT 201)
- Hazards
- vessel on fire, abandoned vessel, adrift vessel, collision risk
- Cancels
- SAR 0157/26
- Charts
- CHART 30 (INT 201)
Vessels involved
- MV ESPIRITO SANTO EXPRESS · casualty
Worked out automatically from the warning text on 19 Oct 2026, 09:27 UTC; the background is general knowledge, not from the warning. It can be wrong: the official warning text is the authority.