Possible mine adrift vicinity 64-17.9N 005-10.8E at 301330Z jun
Norwegian Sea · HYDROLANT 1602/15
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2015-07-03 15:54Z
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 I 182/15 301530Z JUN 15.. Issued 2015-06-30 15:54Z. 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 64.298, 5.180. 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
- 2015-06-30 15:54Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2015-07-03 15:54Z
- authority
- NAVAREA I 182/15 301530Z JUN 15.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA I · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Norwegian Sea
- position
- 64.298, 5.180
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
NORWEGIAN SEA. ORDNANCE. DNC 21. 1. POSSIBLE MINE ADRIFT VICINITY 64-17.9N 005-10.8E AT 301330Z JUN. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 031554Z JUL 15.
Reading this warning
- Unexploded ordnance
- Bombs, shells, mines or torpedoes found on the seabed or washed up, and the operations to remove or destroy them.
- 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.
- Mines and mine danger areas
- Sea mines reported adrift or found, and areas where mines are known or suspected to remain.
- 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 · mine warnings
1 within 180 nm since 2015 · 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
Worldwide in the collected sources
8 mine warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-29 05:59Z; source collection times vary.
Mines
Drifting or reported sea mines. Mostly the Black Sea since 2022. All current mine 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.