AVURNAV Fort De France
Recorded as: AVURNAV FORT DE FRANCE
Urgent notices to mariners issued by the French maritime authority for Martinique and the French Antilles.
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
148 messages in this archive record AVURNAV FORT DE FRANCE as their authority, issued from 2012-03-27 to 2024-01-16. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.
Exercises accounts for 69 of 148 recorded messages (47%), 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 2 sea areas, most often Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean.
The largest yearly count is 2016, with 43 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 July and least often in October.
They reached this archive through NAVAREA IV (134) and HYDROLANT (14).
Messages by year of issue
By month of issue, all years
Warning types
Where
NAVAREA IV 134
Most recently issued
- HYDROLANT 118/24 · Derelicts · Caribbean Sea2024-01-16Derelict 10 meter vessel, blue hull, adrift in 17-45.93N 062-29.73W at 152118Z jan
- NAVAREA IV 1313/23 · Derelicts · Caribbean Sea2023-11-11Derelict vessel g family adrift in 14-09.05N 061-21.99W at 102235Z nov
- NAVAREA IV 1312/23 · Derelicts · Caribbean Sea2023-11-11Derelict vessel g family adrift in 14-09.05N 061-21.99W at 102235Z nov
- NAVAREA IV 998/23 · Exercises · Caribbean Sea2023-08-30Hazardous operations 301400Z to 301600Z aug in area within 12 miles of 14-34.99N 061-47.36W
- NAVAREA IV 979/23 · Exercises · Caribbean Sea2023-08-28Gunnery exercises 301200Z to 301600Z aug in area within 12 miles of 14-35.00N 061-47.36W
- NAVAREA IV 1103/22 · Derelicts · Caribbean Sea2022-10-19Derelict 26 foot vessel, white hull, partially submerged and adrift in 16-22.29N 061-36.46W
- NAVAREA IV 964/22 · Wrecks · Caribbean Sea2022-09-21Ten meter F/V fleepa, white hull, sank in 14-22.50N 061-04.80W at 210033Z sep
- NAVAREA IV 913/22 · Derelicts · Caribbean Sea2022-09-08Derelict 12 meter vessel, white hull, partially submerged and adrift in 14-40.30N 061-16.50W at 081330Z sep
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.