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Ten meter long log reported adrift in 12-18.9N 062-11.6W at 021720Z jul

Caribbean Sea · HYDROLANT 1744/21

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2021-07-05 17:40Z

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) · WEST INDIES - COASTAL 16/21 021731Z JUL 21.. Issued 2021-07-02 17:40Z. 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
Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 12.315, -62.193. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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Current notices and reporting history in the Caribbean Sea →

issued
2021-07-02 17:40Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2021-07-05 17:40Z
authority
WEST INDIES - COASTAL 16/21 021731Z JUL 21.
issued by
WEST INDIES - COASTAL
sea
Caribbean Sea
position
12.315, -62.193
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA.
GRENADA.
DNC 14.
1. TEN METER LONG LOG REPORTED ADRIFT IN
   12-18.9N 062-11.6W AT 021720Z JUL.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 1743/21.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 051740Z JUL 21.

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.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

44 within 180 nm since 1998 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

21 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 19:52Z; 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.