100 meter pontoon, black hull, adrift in vicinity 44-53.00N 020-50.00W at 141830Z may
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1069/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-05-17 20:18Z
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 II 138/23 151318Z MAY 23.. Issued 2023-05-15 14:48Z. 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
- North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 44.883, -20.833. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Derelict 100 meter barge adrift in vicinity 44-53.00N 020-50.00W at 141830Z maycancelled by this notice
Current notices and reporting history in the North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2023-05-15 14:48Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-05-17 20:18Z
- authority
- NAVAREA II 138/23 151318Z MAY 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 44.883, -20.833
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC. DNC 08. 1. 100 METER PONTOON, BLACK HULL, ADRIFT IN VICINITY 44-53.00N 020-50.00W AT 141830Z MAY. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 1065/23. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 172018Z MAY 23.
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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROLANT
- The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
- 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
2 within 180 nm since 2023 · 0 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.
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
- Missile firing from 00H00 to 11H00 UTC daily from 04 to 21 oct 2026Missiles · 41.5 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 07:49Z; 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.