National warning service · Panama

Panama Maritime Authority

Recorded as: PANAMA MARITIME AUTHORITY

Panama's maritime administration, responsible for navigational safety in Panamanian waters.

National warning services and NAVAREA coordinators collect reports of dangers in their waters — from hydrographic surveys, navies, ports and ships — and broadcast them as numbered navigational warnings, some ocean-wide and some coastal.

What the archive holds

120 messages in this archive record PANAMA MARITIME AUTHORITY as their authority, issued from 2011-11-21 to 2024-01-04. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Incidents accounts for 38 of 120 recorded messages (32%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA IV (72) and NAVAREA XII (42).

Located messages lie in 2 sea areas, most often Caribbean Sea and North Pacific Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2017, with 31 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 January and least often in May.

They reached this archive through NAVAREA IV (72), NAVAREA XII (42), HYDROLANT (3) and HYDROPAC (3).

Messages by year of issue

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By month of issue, all years

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA IV 72 · NAVAREA XII 42

Most recently issued

  1. NAVAREA IV 15/24 · Nav aids · Caribbean Sea2024-01-04
    Buoy NO1 09-25.09N 079-49.50W destroyed
  2. NAVAREA IV 1487/23 · Other2023-12-22
    Cancel NAVAREA IV 750/23 and this msg
  3. NAVAREA XII 819/23 · Other2023-11-20
    Cancel NAVAREA XII 805/23, 818/23 and this msg
  4. NAVAREA XII 818/23 · Incidents · North Pacific Ocean2023-11-19
    12 meter F/V, light blue and white hull, four persons on board, disabled and adrift in area bound by…
  5. NAVAREA XII 777/23 · Incidents2023-11-03
    Cancel NAVAREA XII 772/23 and this msg, persons rescued
  6. NAVAREA XII 772/23 · Incidents · North Pacific Ocean2023-11-03
    30 foot M/V, white and blue hull, three persons on board, disabled and adrift in 08-22.30N 079-31.60W
  7. HYDROPAC 3393/23 · Incidents · North Pacific Ocean2023-10-26
    Man overboard in 07-19.12N 082-28.30W
  8. NAVAREA IV 750/23 · Nav aids · Caribbean Sea2023-07-01
    Number 2 buoy 09-21.8N 079-53.6W temporarily removed

Earliest in the archive

  1. NAVAREA IV 407/11 · Other · Caribbean Sea2011-11-21
    Nga chart 26065 (4TH ed)

Other national warning services 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.