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Two 24 meter long red cranes adrift in 68-42.9N 011-29.6E at 010800Z jan

Norwegian Sea · HYDROARC 1/17

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2017-01-05 16:43Z

This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.

Source and dates
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · NAVAREA XIX 1/17 021553Z JAN 17.. Issued 2017-01-02 16:43Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Norwegian Sea. The parsed report position is 68.715, 11.493. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Norwegian Sea →

issued
2017-01-02 16:43Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2017-01-05 16:43Z
authority
NAVAREA XIX 1/17 021553Z JAN 17.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XIX · named as the source of this relay
sea
Norwegian Sea
position
68.715, 11.493
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

NORWEGIAN SEA.
NORWAY.
DNC 21, DNC 22.
1. TWO 24 METER LONG RED CRANES ADRIFT
   IN 68-42.9N 011-29.6E AT 010800Z JAN.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 051643Z JAN 17.

Reading this warning

DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
Adrift
Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
Position (degrees and minutes)
How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
Date-time group (DTG)
A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

3 within 180 nm since 2005 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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17

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

21 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 00:15Z; source collection times vary.

Other

Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →

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