Bay of Biscay
IHO sea area 22 · -8° to -0° E, 43° to 48° N
- in force
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- last 12 months
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- archive messages
- 488
- categories
- 13
What the archive shows
488 messages are recorded since 1999-01-12 for the Bay of Biscay. The selection uses the IHO sea area; a message may describe an exercise, equipment outage or continuing operation as well as a hazard report.
Exercises accounts for 164 of 488 recorded messages (34%), the largest category group in this selection.
The NGA historical archive froze in 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. Counts around that gap are incomplete, and changes in reporting volume do not establish changes in incident frequency.
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By year
By month (all years)
By category · available archive
| Exercises | 164 | 34% |
| Incidents | 106 | 22% |
| Surveys | 66 | 14% |
| Derelicts | 55 | 11% |
| Other | 22 | 5% |
| Nav aids | 21 | 4% |
| Containers | 17 | 3% |
| Debris | 14 | 3% |
| Cable ops | 9 | 2% |
| Wrecks | 6 | 1% |
| Missiles | 3 | 1% |
| Ordnance | 3 | 1% |
| Restricted | 2 | 0% |
Archive · 488 cancelled
- HYDROLANT 3065/15 · Incidents2015-12-09 → 2015-12-20Distress signal received from vessel daisy may vicinity 44-55.0N 003-59.7W at 092155Z dec
- HYDROPAC 3449/15 · Incidents2015-10-20 → 2015-10-20Distress signals received on 406 mhz from M/V la chimere at 200917Z oct in: a. 39-54-57N 149-00-18E
- HYDROLANT 2354/15 · Other2015-09-20 → 2015-09-27Red flare sighted in 44-04N 003-36W at 201920Z sep
- HYDROLANT 2278/15 · Incidents2015-09-14 → 2015-10-3110.3 meter S/V chaitane II, white hull, three persons on board, overdue saint jean de luz (43-23.0N…
- HYDROLANT 2224/15 · Derelicts2015-09-08 → 2015-09-08Derelict 12 meter S/V adrift in 45-30N 003-58W at 072230Z sep
- HYDROLANT 2098/15 · Incidents2015-08-26 → 2015-09-07F/V ar morvran sank in 47-34.28N 004-06.24W at 251627Z aug
- HYDROLANT 2087/15 · Incidents2015-08-25 → 2015-08-26F/V ar morvran, orange hull with white stripe, one person on board, overdue
- HYDROLANT 2053/15 · Incidents2015-08-21 → 2015-08-30Distress signal received from F/V harmonie, three persons on board, in 46-55N 004-53W at 210200Z aug
- HYDROLANT 2034/15 · Nav aids2015-08-19 → 2015-08-20Loran-c station soustons (43-44N 001-23W), rate 6731-X, off air 201200Z to 201600Z aug
- HYDROLANT 1825/15 · Incidents2015-07-24 → 2015-08-01Man overboard from F/V p'tit loup sunk in 47-09.88N 002-30.52W
- HYDROLANT 1782/15 · Incidents2015-07-19 → 2015-08-3012 meter F/V galaxy, black, blue and yellow hull, two persons on board, overdue le guilvinec (47-47.8N…
- HYDROLANT 1781/15 · Debris2015-07-19 → 2015-07-22Five to ten metal cylindrical objects adrift in 44-55.7N 004-02.4W
- HYDROLANT 1659/15 · Incidents2015-07-07 → 2015-07-08Nine meter S/V penn kaled, white hull, one person on board, overdue loctudy (47-50N 004-10W) to porto…
- HYDROLANT 1405/15 · Incidents2015-06-09 → 2015-06-24Man overboard from S/V thalamus vicinity of trackline between la rochelle (46-09.5N 001-09.0W) and…
- HYDROLANT 1366/15 · Incidents2015-06-04 → 2015-07-1831 foot S/V courlis-serflo 3, white hull with red stripe, three persons on board, overdue vivero (43-38.9N…
- HYDROLANT 1335/15 · Incidents2015-06-01 → 2015-07-1810.5 meter S/V wig a vag, black hull, overdue porto (41-09N 008-37W) to douarnenez (48-05N 004-20W)
- HYDROLANT 362/15 · Incidents2015-02-12 → 2015-02-12Spain to netherlands
- HYDROLANT 185/15 · Derelicts2015-01-21 → 2015-01-22Derelict F/V ronsard adrift in 46-33.07N 004-20.3W at 211730Z jan
- HYDROLANT 3076/14 · Other2014-12-18 → 2014-12-28Two persons overboard from F/V la nioulargue in 45-53.1N 002-29.5W at 180245Z dec
- HYDROLANT 2921/14 · Incidents2014-11-30 → 2014-12-01F/V safran sunk in 43-56N 002-06W at 292230Z nov
Sea boundaries: Flanders Marine Institute (2018), IHO Sea Areas v3, marineregions.org (CC BY 4.0). Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts.