Odas buoy adrift vicinity 36-34N 002-06W at 081945Z jul
Alboran Sea · HYDROLANT 1323/03
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2003-07-14 18:23Z
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 III 523/03 082006Z JUL 03. Issued 2003-07-08 22:11Z. 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
- Alboran Sea. The parsed report position is 36.567, -2.100. 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
- Odas buoy 36-42.8N 002-12.2W missingcancelled by this notice
- Odas buoy 36-42.8N 002-12.2W missinglater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2003-07-08 22:11Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA III 523/03 082006Z JUL 03
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Alboran Sea
- position
- 36.567, -2.100
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. ODAS BUOY ADRIFT VICINITY 36-34N 002-06W AT 081945Z JUL. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 1321/03. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 15 JUL.
Reading this warning
- Off station / missing buoy
- A buoy that is not in its charted position — dragged, damaged, missing or removed.
- 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 · drifting objects
2 within 180 nm since 2003 · 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
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
3 drifting objects listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 17:56Z; source collection times vary.
Debris
Logs, buoys, mooring gear and other objects adrift. All current drifting objects →
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.