Drifting ice field, 270 meter diameter reported in 73-39.70N 071-27.50E at 310845Z mar
Kara Sea · HYDROARC 45/24
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-04-03 14:56Z
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) · RUSSIA COASTAL WARNING WEST 23/24 311448Z MAR 24.. Issued 2024-03-31 14:57Z. 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
- Kara Sea. The parsed report position is 73.662, 71.458. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2024-03-31 14:57Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2024-04-03 14:56Z
- authority
- RUSSIA COASTAL WARNING WEST 23/24 311448Z MAR 24.
- issued by
- RUSSIA COASTAL WARNING WEST
- sea
- Kara Sea
- position
- 73.662, 71.458
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
KARA SEA. RUSSIA. DNC 22. 1. DRIFTING ICE FIELD, 270 METER DIAMETER REPORTED IN 73-39.70N 071-27.50E AT 310845Z MAR. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 031456Z APR 24.
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.
Collected reports in this area · other warnings
7 within 180 nm since 2015 · 1 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.
- Tide gauge established at depth 15 meters in 73-08.24N 080-26.79E2026-07-26
- Automatic bottom stations established in: a. 71-29.2N 072-12.0E2021-10-13
- Automatic bottom station, at depth 16 meters, established in 72-33.41N 073-44.77E2021-07-17
- Underwater equipment established in: a. 73-06.76N 080-14.40E2020-10-15
- Submerged anchor with chain in vicinity 70-58.03N 073-37.86E2020-07-02
- Geophysical survey 22 sep thru 23 oct by M/V kapitan voronin in area bound by 72-50.67N 067-06.00E,…2015-09-21
Month of issue in the collected archive
All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.
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
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 10:18Z; source collection times vary.
Other
Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →
Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.