Scientific or monitoring agency · United States

NOAA National Data Buoy Center

Recorded as: NDBC

Weather and ocean buoys, including those adrift or off station.

Scientific and monitoring agencies issue warnings about their own work at sea — research vessels, moorings and seafloor instruments — or relay alerts about natural hazards such as tsunamis and space weather that affect ships.

What the archive holds

89 messages in this archive record NDBC as their authority, issued from 2010-03-19 to 2023-12-11. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Debris accounts for 79 of 89 recorded messages (89%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA IV (46) and NAVAREA XII (27).

Located messages lie in 8 sea areas, most often North Pacific Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.

The largest yearly count is 2016, with 13 messages.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in April and least often in February.

They reached this archive through NAVAREA IV (46), NAVAREA XII (27) and HYDROPAC (16).

Messages by year of issue

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA IV 46 · NAVAREA XII 27

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROPAC 3881/23 · Debris · South Pacific Ocean2023-12-11
    Dart buoy 52406 adrift in vicinity 05-03.70S 165-02.60E at 110723Z dec
  2. NAVAREA IV 1173/23 · Debris · Gulf of Mexico2023-10-11
    Buoy 42020 adrift in vicinity 26-56.08N 096-42.85W at 110803Z oct
  3. NAVAREA IV 92/23 · Debris · North Atlantic Ocean2023-01-21
    Odas buoy 44017 adrift in vicinity 40-41.34N 072-02.56W at 211400Z jan
  4. HYDROPAC 2799/22 · Other2022-10-06
    Cancel HYDROPAC 2782/22 and this msg, buoy on station
  5. NAVAREA XII 218/22 · Debris · North Pacific Ocean2022-04-05
    Odas buoy 46404 adrift in vicinity 45-49-17N 128-42-21W at 041500Z apr
  6. NAVAREA XII 694/21 · Debris · North Pacific Ocean2021-12-10
    Odas buoy 46001 adrift in vicinity 56-14-16N 147-46-41W at 100900Z dec
  7. NAVAREA XII 546/21 · Debris · North Pacific Ocean2021-09-27
    Odas buoy 46029 adrift in vicinity 46-09-43N 124-25-16W at 270703Z sep
  8. NAVAREA IV 801/21 · Debris · North Atlantic Ocean2021-09-05
    Odas buoy 41420 adrift in vicinity 23-29-32N 067-24-12W at 051953Z sep

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROPAC 549/10 · Debris · North Pacific Ocean2010-03-19
    Nga chart 521 (11TH ed)

Other scientific or monitoring agencys 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.

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