AVURNAV Brest
Recorded as: AVURNAV BREST
Urgent notices to mariners issued by the French maritime authority for the French Atlantic coast.
AVURNAV — avis urgents aux navigateurs, urgent notices to mariners — are the navigational warnings of the French maritime authorities, issued for metropolitan France's coasts and for overseas territories from the Caribbean to the Pacific. They cover firing exercises, obstructions, lights out of service and rescue cases.
What the archive holds
594 messages in this archive record AVURNAV BREST as their authority, issued from 2019-10-29 to 2024-05-10. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.
Exercises accounts for 460 of 594 recorded messages (77%), the largest warning type group in this selection.
All of those that can be attributed to a NAVAREA belong to NAVAREA IV.
Located messages lie in 4 sea areas, most often Celtic Sea, Bay of Biscay and North Atlantic Ocean.
The largest yearly count is 2023, with 264 messages. Collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17, so those years are not comparable.
Across all years its messages are issued most often in March and least often in July.
They reached this archive through HYDROLANT (593) and NAVAREA IV (1).
Messages by year of issue
By month of issue, all years
Warning types
Where
Most recently issued
- HYDROLANT 980/24 · Cable ops · Celtic Sea2024-05-09Cable operations 130001Z thru 280100Z may by cableship athena along trackline joining 49-09.57N 005-37.48W,…
- HYDROLANT 978/24 · Nav aids · Bay of Biscay2024-05-09Temporary buoy with acoustic recorder established in 47-04.24N 003-19.81W until 25 may
- HYDROLANT 948/24 · Cable ops · Celtic Sea2024-05-03Cable operations in progress until 03 jun by cableship detector along trackline joining 48-45.15N…
- HYDROLANT 947/24 · Nav aids · English Channel2024-05-03Ile vierge light 48-38.30N 004-34.10W unlit
- HYDROLANT 946/24 · Other2024-05-03Cancel HYDROLANT 860/24 and this msg
- HYDROLANT 937/24 · Exercises · Celtic Sea2024-05-02Gunnery exercises 021100Z to 021300Z and 021400Z to 021600Z may in area bound by 48-20.40N 004-37.00W,…
- HYDROLANT 922/24 · Exercises · Celtic Sea2024-04-30Gunnery exercises 010700Z to 010900Z may in area bound by 48-21.00N 005-20.00W, 48-21.00N 004-53.00W,…
- HYDROLANT 915/24 · Debris · Celtic Sea2024-04-29Submerged fishing net adrift in 48-09.04N 005-29.24W
Earliest in the archive
Other french maritime authority (avurnav)s in NAVAREA IV
Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.