{"id":1118,"date":"2026-10-28T03:33:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/arn-158-26-moves-the-khoryv-wreck-south-to-43-49-50-n\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T03:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:33:36","slug":"arn-158-26-moves-the-khoryv-wreck-south-to-43-49-50-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/arn-158-26-moves-the-khoryv-wreck-south-to-43-49-50-n\/","title":{"rendered":"ARN 158-26 moves the Khoryv wreck south to 43-49.50 N"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romania\u2019s Maritime Hydrographic Directorate published a new radio navigational warning on Tuesday that Sunday\u2019s dedicated Khoryv keep-clear no longer has the right position. The official English text, printed on the Directorate\u2019s avize-radio page as ARN 158\/2026 and cancelling ARN 156\/2026, states that at 10:00 UTC on 27 October \u2014 12:00 local \u2014 the partially sunken vessel M\/V Khoryv was reported in position 43-49.50 N, 028-53.37 E. The header of the same notice repeats the plot to a thousandth of a minute as 43-49.502 N, 028-53.368 E. The vessel remains afloat, capsized. Three crew members are reported missing. All ships in the vicinity, and all ships transiting the area, are requested to keep a sharp lookout. Mariners are advised to keep a safe distance of at least one nautical mile from the vessel. It is a danger to navigation. Relevant information is to be reported to MRCC Constanta on VHF Channel 16 or by e-mail to mrcc@rna.ro. The Romanian page, ARN 158\/2026, prints the same geometry, the same 12:00 local clock and the same three-missing line. Industry coastal reprints carry the notice as 158\/26, active until further notice.<\/p>\n

That is the working primary. Tuesday\u2019s notice is a wreck-move product. It is not a second Khoryv attack, not a completed sinking, and not a closed missing-person search. Sunday\u2019s dedicated Directorate piece plotted the working keep-clear at 43-55.25 N, 028-57.40 E on ARN 155\/2026, cancelling ARN 154\/2026, after a 09:00 UTC report on 25 October. An earlier Tuesday notice, ARN 156\/2026, cancelled 155\/2026 and moved the hull at 04:18 UTC on 27 October to 43-51.24 N, 028-54.54 E on the industry coastal reprint, still afloat and capsized, still three missing, still a one-nautical-mile keep-clear. Tuesday afternoon\u2019s 158\/2026 cancels that intermediate and moves the hull again, about two nautical miles further south-southwest, to 43-49.50 N, 028-53.37 E. Saturday\u2019s dedicated Directorate piece remains the first public lat-long, ARN 152\/2026 \/ industry 153\/26 at 44-06.59 N, 029-01.10 E after the 07:06 UTC capsize on 23 October. Friday\u2019s dedicated Romanian Naval Authority naming remains the casualty and search piece: Comoros flag, crew of 13, nine recovered alive, one body recovered, three missing, 13 nautical miles abeam of Constanta, outside territorial waters. Masters who brief Wednesday as a new strike, as a settled wreck, or as a closed search will have merged six products.<\/p>\n

What the warning actually printed<\/h2>\n

The hydrographic text is short and is the working primary. BLACK SEA. ROMANIA. PARTIALLY SUNKEN VESSEL. Cancels ARN 156\/2026. Published 27 October 2026. The report clock is 27 October 2026 at 10:00 UTC, 12:00 local. The position is 43-49.502 N, 028-53.368 E in the header and 43-49,50 N 028-53,37 E in the body. The hull is named M\/V KHORYV. The vessel remains afloat, capsized. Three crew members are reported missing. Ships nearby and ships transiting are to keep a sharp lookout. The keep-clear is at least one nautical mile. Report to MRCC Constanta, VHF 16 or mrcc@rna.ro. That is the product. The Directorate did not print a wreck buoy, a light, a sinking time, a pollution line, a cargo, a bunker figure, an IMO number, or an attacker. It did not close the three-missing count. It did not mark the hull on the bottom.<\/p>\n

The move is the operator fact Sunday\u2019s keep-clear could not yet give. Friday\u2019s first plot, 44-06.59 N, 029-01.10 E, sat on the 13-mile Constanta offset. Sunday\u2019s plot, 43-55.25 N, 028-57.40 E, already sat about 11 nautical miles south and about three nautical miles west of that first position. Tuesday\u2019s working plot, 43-49.50 N, 028-53.37 E, sits about 17 nautical miles south and about six nautical miles west of Friday\u2019s capsize \u2014 a south-southwest drift of roughly 18 nautical miles over four days. From Sunday\u2019s 155\/2026 circle the hull has made good about six nautical miles south and about three nautical miles west in about 49 hours. The 04:18 UTC intermediate, ARN 156\/2026 at 43-51.24 N, 028-54.54 E, already had the hull about four nautical miles south-southwest of Sunday\u2019s plot; 158\/2026 is a further two-nautical-mile south-southwest shift in under six hours, not a teleport and not a second casualty. A one-nautical-mile keep-clear around the new position is a new plotted circle. The old 43-55.25 N circle is no longer the working instrument. Constanta, Midia and Mangalia are not closed by this notice. The Sulina approaches are not closed by this notice. Do not brief a Romanian port shutdown from a drifting, still-afloat inverted hull.<\/p>\n

The missing-crew line is still open. Friday\u2019s Authority count was nine alive, one dead, three missing. Saturday\u2019s first wreck notice repeated the three-missing figure. Sunday\u2019s 155\/2026 repeated it. Tuesday\u2019s 156\/2026 repeated it. Tuesday afternoon\u2019s 158\/2026 repeats it again and still asks every transiting hull to keep a lookout. It does not close the search. It does not revise the dead or the recovered. Hold Romania\u2019s 13 and three-missing on this product. Do not invent a revised casualty table from a position update.<\/p>\n

What this is not, and the same-week hydrographic colour<\/h2>\n

President Nicu\u0219or Dan\u2019s Friday drone attribution, and the Reuters NATO-flank charge, stay on Friday\u2019s dedicated Authority piece. Tuesday\u2019s wreck-move notice does not repeat a drone, a state of origin, or a NATO tasking. Defence minister \u0218tefan Radu Oprea\u2019s Friday explanation \u2014 Coast Guard first because the hit sat outside territorial waters \u2014 is still the response geometry. A hull that has drifted south-southwest toward the recommended landfall does not, by itself, move the army\u2019s territorial-waters window. Tuesday 21 October\u2019s dedicated NATO extra-patrol-aircraft note and Thursday\u2019s dedicated European Parliament \/ Romania CSAT file remain the last alliance and EU prints on this desk. Do not sell Tuesday\u2019s new lat-long as Black Sea Sentry, as an escort, or as a Joint War Committee circle change.<\/p>\n

Open-register colour, already used on Friday\u2019s dedicated file and still not an Authority or Directorate finding: IMO 8138712, Comoros, call sign D6A3168, MMSI 620999164, built 1983, about 119 metres, summer deadweight about 3,280 tonnes, ore\/oil carrier on the registers. Voyage colour, also not a cargo declaration: last port Eregli on 21 October, AIS destination SVLINA, ETA 23 October 23:00 UTC. Sofia Globe\u2019s ferrous-metals line remains media colour. The wreck-move notice names the hull and the new position. It does not confirm the cargo, the bunkers, or a pollution volume. Do not invent a slick from a drifted keep-clear. Do not recycle Wine Trader\u2019s fire-and-abandon position, 45-00.40 N 029-59.92 E on ARN 145\/2026, onto this Constanta-south offset.<\/p>\n

Same-week Directorate colour, for the bridge folder, not as a second dedicated casualty. ARN 157\/2026, also published 27 October, warns of a maritime exercise from 28 October to 3 November inside a circular area of 20 nautical miles radius centred on 44-02.79 N, 030-35.25 E, mariners to avoid entering, cancel 032130 UTC on 3 November. That box sits around the Neptun Alpha production-platform offset, well east of Tuesday\u2019s wreck. It is not Khoryv and it is not a wreck buoy. ARN 150\/2026 still warns of hydrographic survey and oceanographic research by the hydrographic vessel C\u0103pitan Comandor Alexandru C\u0103tuneanu on 27 and 28 October between 06:00 UTC and 15:00 UTC in a polygon west of Constanta, cancel 281600 UTC. That is a survey box, not this hull. ARN 147\/2026 warns of real firing on 29 October from 14:00 UTC to 17:00 UTC and on 30 October from 07:00 UTC to 17:00 UTC in a prohibited box north of Constanta, cancel 301800 UTC. ARN 143\/2026 still carries real firing and UAV flight activity through 29 October in the same northern box. Do not brief the wreck as inside those firing boxes. ARN 151\/2026, the separate drifting object at 43-53.20 N, 030-43.20 E, already self-cancelled at 261100 UTC on 26 October. Coastal-protection works still sit inshore near 43-49 N, 028-37 E until 30 October; a missing port-hand light buoy remains at 43-48.17 N, 028-33.72 E. Those are harbour-approach colour. They are not this wreck. Wine Trader remains the 15 October fire-and-unmanned notice at 45-00.40 N 029-59.92 E.<\/p>\n

Operational implications<\/h2>\n

A named, still-afloat capsized hull that has moved about 18 nautical miles south-southwest in four days is a collision, MOB and SAR-traffic problem before it is a war-risk rewrite. Sunday\u2019s dedicated keep-clear told masters to plot 43-55.25 N, 028-57.40 E. Tuesday\u2019s notice tells them that circle is stale. The working waypoint is now 43-49.50 N, 028-53.37 E, still one nautical mile, still three missing, still no wreck buoy and still no light. Later Friday imagery, already on the dedicated Authority file, showed only a sliver of hull above the water. The hydrographic text still says the vessel remains afloat, capsized. Hold both. A barely visible inverted hull that is also drifting is a radar and visual lookout, not a charted wreck symbol until the Directorate or the Authority says so.<\/p>\n

The drift itself is the routing change. From the 23 October capsize to the 27 October 10:00 UTC report the hull has made good about 17 nautical miles south and about six nautical miles west. That track is toward the recommended landfall and the Constanta traffic-separation scheme, not toward Sulina and not into Tuesday\u2019s 20-mile exercise circle around 44-02.79 N, 030-35.25 E. The Directorate\u2019s standing recommended-routes notice still tells ships approaching and leaving Romanian harbours to use 43-47.59 N, 028-50.86 E. Tuesday\u2019s wreck plot sits about two and a half nautical miles north-northeast of that landfall waypoint. A one-nautical-mile keep-clear around 43-49.50 N, 028-53.37 E therefore sits on the coastal-approach geometry, not 13 miles offshore where Friday\u2019s casualty sat. Masters inbound to Constanta, Midia or Mangalia, and masters running recommended track 2 into the Constanta TSS, now have a moving obstruction near the landfall rather than a fixed 13-mile offset. A one-mile keep-clear around a hull that has already moved five times in four days will be wrong again if a later ARN reprints the position. Plot the 158\/2026 circle, keep a lookout up-drift and down-drift, and expect the next numbered notice to move it again. Do not leave Sunday\u2019s 43-55.25 N waypoint as the only wreck in the folder.<\/p>\n

Charterers who still treat the Romanian coast as a quiet alternative to Ukrainian ports now have a drifted obstruction near the Constanta landfall and an open MOB watch. War-risk underwriters will ask for the 43-49.50 N, 028-53.37 E position, the cancelled 156\/2026 intermediate, the cancelled 155\/2026 Sunday plot, the still-afloat line, and the still-open three-missing count. They will not be answered by Friday morning\u2019s Authority statement alone, and they will not be answered by Sunday\u2019s keep-clear. Port State, flag and next-of-kin work remain with Comoros, the Ukrainian and Azerbaijani missions, and whoever holds the DOC. None of those names is on the wreck-move notice.<\/p>\n

A pollution watch remains open because the notice is still silent. Friday\u2019s dedicated file already told operators not to invent a spill. Saturday\u2019s notice printed no hydrocarbon line. Sunday\u2019s notice still printed no hydrocarbon line. Tuesday\u2019s 156\/2026 and 158\/2026 still print no hydrocarbon line, no boom, and no closed beach. That is not a clean bill. Small combo \/ ore-oil hulls carry fuel. A hull that remains afloat and inverted after four days of drift can still release. Masters inbound to Constanta, Midia or Mangalia should expect SAR and Coast Guard traffic, a one-mile keep-clear around a new position close to the recommended landfall, and a lookout for persons in the water, not a completed wreck-removal order. Do not treat the canal, the roadstead or the port as closed unless the Authority or the harbour master says so.<\/p>\n

What Operators Should Note<\/h2>\n